The Revolution Will Be Subtle

Much of what we have concluded about revolution, was born of the actions of man and the stories of war. But tell me this, what’s actually revolutionary about attempting to heal wounding with violence?

Where in history has violent revolution created something vastly different than what existed beforehand, outside of shifting the positions of who was oppressed and who was oppressing? Where in history has violent revolution directly produced love?

We use the tools that we have until we think to question them. And in that curiosity new considerations arise.

We are conditioned to believe that revolution amounts to the conflict of many, but I’d like to suggest that it may be as simple as the actualization of one.

I don’t believe that Revolution can be measured by who is the loudest or the most validated. I believe that Revolution is the work of alignment, and that alignment is the work of the unseen. It is the work of engaging the Subtle; the emotions that rise in our bellies and dwell in tensed muscles, the memories of past, and unprocessed, hurts and experiences, the trauma that is ours and the trauma that’s been passed down across generations. Revolution invites us to deeply root ourselves in our own vastness and the vastness of all that is, to find a power that is ours to remember. To leverage that power on behalf of our own healing and transformation.

In the presence of all this pain; the refusal to disengage with our humanity, and the willingness to direct our attention, and our energy, towards holding and healing all that keeps us from being who we are?

The Revolution will be Subtle.