Your Edge Is Your Gift

My YouTube site is called “Touching The Edge,” and I often talk about “touching the edge without bursting through it.” Your edge is your limit. It is your actual limit, whether it is physical or emotional. Sometimes our edge is not what we think it is or want it to be. We may think we have more capacity than we have, or have more than we realize. 

It is also represented by where we feel vulnerable. Our sense of vulnerability is our edge. It is the feeling of being out of place socially. It is found in the fear of what may happen in the future, our fear of death and growing old, as well as the concerns about illness. It can be found in the insecurity of jealousy, and in the bias of hatred.

Essentially the edge is our relationship to death and all it’s guise in our life. However death is the great giver to life, its relationship creates intensity in which we find our power and creativity. The edge is how we feel others see us, and how we define ourselves, and as we come near the end we find poignancy. 

If we recognize it for what it is, the edge is our great opportunity. In the willingness to be vulnerable, to allow ourselves to be at the edge and feeling the exhilaration of it we can find inspiration and the relationship to genius. 

We spend so much of our lives hiding from it that we miss what it offers. The difficult times of  life also provide us our offering to the world. Becoming comfortable with the edge equips us for life, but also for death. The gift is learning how to let go of who we used to be.relaxing into the edge, learning to not hold on, we can surrender into who we are meant to become. 

Touching the edge is your opportunity to be really you. To not be bound to the past, or to your environment . It requires and is the expression of courage to really go for what you want to be and express in this world. It is not a response to others, but the expression of one's heart. It is for you, be it as an artist or activist, teacher or laborer. You were born to touch your edge.