MEDITATION : TO BE A POINT OF LIGHT
This episode explores the gentle power of presence: how resting in your inner flame becomes a sanctuary for others.
Beloved one, to be a point of light for another soul is to rest gently in the flame entrusted to you. Not a flame you created, not a flame you must guard with effort, but the eternal ember that lives quietly at the center of your being.
It does not falter with the winds of circumstance, though at times it seems hidden. It does not vanish with the tides of fear, though fear may veil it. It is the fire of Presence itself — steady, unbroken, waiting to be revealed.
When you breathe into this flame, when you allow your heart to become its hearth, you carry into the world a sanctuary of stillness.
You need not speak many words. You need not resolve another’s pain. For what brings safety is not knowledge, but the quiet radiance of your being.
To sit with another in their weariness, to listen as though their voice were a tide from the deep, to honor even their silence as a threshold — this is to wrap them in light. For in such moments, your still attention whispers:
You are here. You are seen. You are safe. You belong.
The soul does not ask for grand gestures. It longs only for the space to breathe. A candle lit in the twilight, a cup of tea offered with tenderness, a blessing that drifts like incense through unseen realms — these are sacraments of presence.
Through them, love takes on form, and the invisible reveals itself. And when your own flame feels small, when your lamp seems to flicker, remember: even the faintest glow can guide a traveler through the night. Even the quietest shimmer assures the wandering heart:
There is a path. Keep walking.
To be a point of light, then, is not to banish darkness, but to dwell within it with faithfulness, until the other remembers that they too carry a flame, that they too are woven of fire and mystery. In this way, beloved, your very presence becomes sanctuary.
Your breath becomes invocation. Your gaze becomes refuge. And your being — simple, ordinary, luminous as it is — becomes the shining of the Eternal through time.
Nigel Lott teaandzen.org
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