01/05/2026
If there’s something scaring you or overwhelming you. Something you don’t want to accept. Something you feel you can’t bear to look at. A scratching unease that claws beneath the surface of your psyche.
Tell the truth.
Speak the simple truth out loud.
Say what simply is.
Not to another person.
To the quiet inner chamber of your own listening heart.
The truth you don’t want to admit. The truth you are afraid you cannot bear.
The truth about whatever is happening.
Simple, naked, unadorned.
Now here’s the real trick.
Don’t try to do something with it.
Don’t analyze it or look for insight. Don’t reach for the next thing.
Just stay.
Speak the simple truth and stay. Let your own heart hear you say it.
Stay.
Recieve yourself here.
Suddenly what seemed unbearable becomes bearable.
Suddenly it is exposed to the presence of loving kindness when placed on the sacred altar of your heart.
The simple truth, spoken out loud.
It is so unglamorous and so simple.
Yet somehow it it is the doorway into the deep abiding love that is everywhere
~ Maya Luna
Art by Helena Nelson-Reed
