Holding the Light in the Face of Suffering

I have suffered greatly on behalf of my family and their suffering. If I can get to a place where I do not react, where I do not suffer with them, will their suffering also quiet down?

Their suffering may or may not quiet down. Most likely you will continue to witness the humanity of your loved ones—their failures, their successes, and the ways in which they choose suffering over peace. It is important, however, to not “vibrate” in the suffering. If you vibrate in the suffering, you will feed it. You will actually add to the energy of suffering and to the consciousness that believes it is real. There is a beautiful way to be compassionately present without being karmically involved. Look at the lives of the saints and humanitarians. How did they do it? How did Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., do it? How did Mother Theresa succeed in being among the suffering, the dying and the poor—those who were most in need—and not go under? She did not vibrate or resonate with their suffering; she resonated with the Light of Christ.

When you resonate with this Light, you actually hold the light. You develop an inner constancy where peace and beauty abide. You stay there, and you hold that place within yourself. This is not a matter of saying or doing the right thing. It is simply a state of being that aligns itself with the consciousness of God. This constant light will be realized by those around you as a peaceful and beautiful reassurance.

You do not have the power to release others from their suffering, but you do have the power to hold the light. If others should want this light, they have the free will to choose it for themselves. You have the power to be an anchor for this light.

(January 21, 2007)

Maresha's next blog will be published September  2, 2014.


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