15 July 2025 - Tuesday To Reimagine Ourselves and the World as One Living Heart of Earth

15 July 2025 - Tuesday

To Reimagine Ourselves and the World as One Living Heart of Earth

“I Carry the Mountain in My Breath”

A Ceremonial Introduction to Living Within Two Lands

from the Earth Remembers Series

To Reimagine Ourselves and the World as One Living Heart of Earth

A Tz’utujiil Maya Reflection on Inner Kindness

through the Weaving of Voice 1 and Voice 2

To reimagine ourselves and the world as one living being — one Earth, one sacred body — is not merely an act of thought. It is an act of remembering. It is a return to Kimoon K’uxlaal — the living memory that life is always lived in relationship, and that the heart of relationship is woven thread by thread, word by word, breath by breath.

This remembering does not begin in distant forests or vast oceans — though they too are part of the weave. It begins within the inner nature of your body, in the invisible place where words are born before they are spoken. It begins where thoughts rise like clouds from the unseen lake of your emotions. It begins where the threads of your inner world — your doubts, fears, wounds, and longings — come into conversation.

It begins with Voice 1.

Voice 1 is not an enemy. It is the ancient voice that speaks first — the one shaped by survival, pain, memory, injustice, and grief. It speaks quickly, defensively, critically. Sometimes harsh. Sometimes hopeless.

It says:

• “You’ll never be enough.”

• “The world is broken.”

• “Why try?”

In the Tz’utujiil Maya way of living, we do not silence this voice.

We listen.

We bow to it.

We place our hand on our heart and say:

“I hear you.”

“I honor what you carry.”

“Show me the light that still lives inside your words.”

This is the first act of inner kindness:

To listen to Voice 1 not to believe its story, but to feel its light.

To ask, not “What’s wrong with me?” but “What light is still hidden inside this pain?”

And here, in the quiet of our inner altar, something begins to shift.

A resonance begins to rise. Not as logic. Not as reason. But as a feeling.

A breath.

A warmth.

A clarity.

This is Voice 2.

Voice 2 does not speak over Voice 1 — it listens deeper.

It does not replace the story — it weaves it into something new.

Voice 2 says:

• “There is beauty in what you carry.”

• “Even here, there is light.”

• “Let us not run away. Let us sit beside this fire together.”

The emergence of Voice 2 within Voice 1 is the emergence of the Heart Within Voice 1 — the moment when light is allowed to enter the wound not to erase it, but to hold it in wholeness.

This is the sacred shift.

This is Kimoon K’uxlaal — the weaving of the many inner parts into one living heart.

From this moment forward, a new inner tapestry begins to form.

You begin to notice:

• That your breath is woven with the wind in the trees.

• That the way you speak to yourself shapes the way you speak to others.

• That every idea, every emotion, every thread of your being is connected to something greater.

This is how inner kindness becomes outer kindness.

The inner action of listening to Voice 1 with the heart becomes the outer practice of speaking to others with the same gentleness.

The inner choice to receive your own sorrow with respect becomes the outer gesture of pausing before judging another.

The inner weaving of thought and light becomes the outer weaving of relationship and care.

And from here, you begin to live differently.

Not because someone told you to — but because your own body began to remember:

Life is always lived in relationship.

You begin to speak with tenderness.

You begin to act with presence.

You begin to move as part of the world, not apart from it.

You receive the threads of other beings —

the whisper of a tree,

the cry of a wounded friend,

the silence of a stranger,

the presence of the fire,

the knowing in your bones —

and you begin to weave.

This is how we reimagine ourselves.

This is how we reimagine the world.

Not through ideas alone — but through relational action,

through inner kindness that becomes embodied kindness,

through the honoring of our many inner voices

until they form the single, resonant voice

of a Heart that Remembers.

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Examples of the Weaving of Voice 1 into Voice 2 (as Inner Kindness)

Voice 1 Inner Dialogue - “I’m so behind, I’ll never catch up.”

Heart Within Voice 1 - “You are carrying so much, you’re not tired, not broken.

Voice 2 Emerging light response - “Rest first, then take one step, you are not alone.”

Voice 1 Inner Dialogue - “They don’t see me. I must be invisible.”

Heart Within Voice 1 - “This hurt has been with you for years, let’s sit with it. “

Voice 2 Emerging light response - “ You matter, you are seen -  by yourself, by the land, by me. “

Voice 1 Inner Dialogue - “I am afraid to speak, I might get it wrong.”

Heart Within Voice 1 - “Your fear is protecting you,  let’s listen, not shame it.”

Voice 2 Emerging light response - “You can speak with courage and care, your voice belongs here.”

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To reimagine ourselves and the world as One Living Earth

is to remember that we are already woven —

but we must choose to feel the threads.

Begin with your own voice.

Begin with the place that hurts.

Begin with the place that doubts.

And let the light of the Heart Within

show you how even fear is a doorway

into something whole.

This is inner kindness.

This is relational wisdom.

This is the sacred beginning

of reimagining everything

as part of one great living weave.

In the Tz’utujiil Maya way - Kimoon K’uxlaal.

The Weaving of Many into One Heart.

The sacred way that life

is always lived in relationship.

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