all are sacred.

it’s easy to forget, especially when we are fearful, wounded, or angry, that there are no exceptions.

we see what happens all the time, when people’s unfaced fear, unhealed pain, and untransformed anger manifests into exclusion and demonization of others. harm and destruction is the result, and the cycle of harming continues…

healing comes through breaking the cycle. breaking the cycle allows for something better, more beneficial to arise. this can be our hope and this hope begins with each of us.

all are sacred.

no exceptions.

~j

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“It’s time to wake up and love.” 

~ Aaron Cohen

maybe even well past time, but there’s no time like the present 👍🏻

~j

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sitting, not grasping

diving into mystery

will i trust this life?

this surrendering

it takes a bit of courage

but how else to love?

~j

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i really value this insightful *quote, from spiritual friend and teacher, Susan Piver. i think it contains some really needed wisdom. 

so often, we meet our feelings and emotional states with judgement and criticism. we feel that somehow we aren’t living up to the saintly standards we’ve set for ourselves, but we aren’t saints. we are human beings – messy and beautiful, experiencing this mystery, learning and growing.

instead of greeting our emotions with harshness, we can meet our emotions with gentleness, with love, with an open heart. we can make friends with them. when we meet what we feel with gentleness, with love, with an open heart, we allow for spaciousness to arise. in that spaciousness, we have the opportunity to see clearly, to learn, to grow, to care, to be compassionate to ourselves, and then to others as well.

when we begin by judging ourselves, by criticizing ourselves, we narrow, we close up, and we can get stuck. when we are closed, we are not able to see in a wider view or with clarity. we are likely unable to fully learn or grow. how is this beneficial? 

meeting our emotions as friends, with an open heart and love, can be a path and practice we choose from moment to moment. the path and practice of an open heart.

~j

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*quote from Susan’s book, “The Wisdom of a Broken Heart”

befriend yourself. allow the space to hold yourself and all you are feeling with grace and gentleness. allow space for nonaction and then mindful, compassionate action when and where appropriate. this is a practice.
~j

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Posted @withregram • @sharonsalzberg

We need to honor the dignity of every feeling that arises within us. This doesn’t mean we necessarily act on every feeling, but we knowledge them, without suppressing or repressing them.

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eventually, if we want to suffer less, we have to come to the realization that life doesn’t bend to our comfort level.

instead, it provides the opportunity to grow in our capacity to open to life as it is in this moment, to open our heart, and act from awareness and compassion for ourselves and others.

it’s a life long practice.

still practicing…

~j

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in so many ways we have been taught that being brave is being tough and to be tough means to harden ourselves up. but this isn’t true. when we harden and close up, we aren’t living out of bravery; we are living out of fear. 

instead, we can open our hearts, allow ourselves to be vulnerable, raw, receptive, open, present to life. this is true bravery, this is love, and fear has no hold on love. living love is how we are set free.

~j

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beyond birth and death, since beginningless time.

love.

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what else is there?

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