“The capacity to experience true compassion is evolutionary, and can move you to do remarkable acts of kindness and generosity without getting burnt out. It often takes many decades to arrive at that dynamic balance of meeting your own needs and the needs of others.”
Once a year, tens of thousands of people gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create Burning Man, Rock City, a community dedicated to art, self-expression, and self-reliance. In this crucible of creativity, a particular sculpture caught people’s attention this past year, inviting them to interpret its meaning.
To want to know what this so that we can offer it to the world creates in us a deep longing, at times anxiety, and possibly a sense of being lost, that often leads us to seek guidance, to pray, and to reserve a very sacred part of us to receive this knowing. Others can share their journey, or their wisdom, but the holy process of being devoted to discovering what you are here to give—to live as your True offering—-is very personal, and takes place in the innermost chambers of a person’s heart.
