When I am in pain, just let me be
I don’t need your pity or outrage or sympathy
I only need Presence
Just give me your eyes
You lived out your story, now this one’s for me
Let me be wrenched
Let me feel it myself
Let me pass through it fully
Or, rather, let it pass through me
I earned it wholeheartedly, now let it consume me
Too many people have tried to explain it
They give it a name
They give antecedents
But pain has been pure since the beginning
It’s the thing that melts wings and it’s ...
The point of religious practice or a belief system is to set you free. If it is not doing that, it has become a hindrance to you that you should examine and maybe abandon. Remember, whatever your practice – Yoga, prayer, being part of a church, or reading sacred Scripture – was there originally to lead you to God and to liberation. Any time your practice becomes an end in itself, it fails to fully achieve its purpose, which is to set you free, even from itself. If that happens, you should ...
I will protect your shadow even though when it’s dark it slips
I’ll clean your window, make you look out and see scenery
I am a stranger, shouldn’t talk to myself in times of rearrangement or even in good mental health
And on the other side soon they’ll side with their family who hides from all the evil within their own bloodline
But you fly a different kite hovering over their heads so high
I will tie your lasso, can’t you make a knot slip?
I’ll ask your ghost if ...
I was gonna give you all of my timeMore timeMore timeI was gonna go and get you more timeMore timeMore timeI was gonna give you more and more timeI ain’t lyingI was gonna give you loads of more timeMy timeIt’s my time ...
Don’t be afraid to let your faith and beliefs evolve. Everything in us is geared toward figuring out all the “right” things to believe and then defending them and promoting them as what everyone else needs to believe, like they’re perfect in their current form and don’t need any revision or reformation. But the real truth is being uncovered, it is evolving and it is conversation. It’s not that the truth is changing necessarily; it’s that it is still emerging. You’ve just ...
There is nothing wrong with having some working idea of what you believe about the world. Just know you are wrong or, at the very least, not finished learning. Come to some conclusions, but hold those conclusions softly. Soon, you will be presented with information that challenges what you think you “know”. If your grip is too tight on your current assumptions, you will not listen well and you will spend a lot of energy furiously defending the things you think you need to believe.
It is tempting ...
Be thankful for these little frailties, mistakes and woundings that routinely throw you off your path. They remind you of your true nature: you are human and wanting. When you are in pain, worried, weak, disoriented and confused, slow down and pay attention. These are your entrance into what you really need: an experience of God in God’s tenderest form. Your little weaknesses are also what keep you tender and vulnerable. That is the best thing that can happen to you.
These little setbacks and ...
Everyone begins their life inside some context. Inside that context, things make sense to you. People who were also born into the same circumstances live there, speak your language and have similar ways of thinking. There is nothing wrong with the place you come from. It is home. You might always feel most comfortable with people who have a similar background and come from the same place you do. The problem is when you think the way you are is the best or only way to be and you devalue others, ...