Dear Friends,
Sometimes I want to show up in a loving way, but I just don’t feel I have the energy for loving anyone or anything. I might want to extend myself and really reflect the love I have in my heart, but instead I collapse or show up cranky.
Someone in our mindfulness group shared something about this recently that I have been reflecting on.
We were talking about Boundless Love – the kind of love that we can feel when we are still and quiet. When we touch the insight of interbeing, recognizing that each and every part of the cosmos belongs here. It’s the love that can fill us up and then overflow to others.
Dear Friends,
I’ve self identified as codependent since I learned what the word meant (unhealthy attachment to another person/s). I recently had a chance to experience this habit energy in a funny way that led me to a bit more understanding.
While I was at the Cirque du Soleil, I found myself unable to enjoy the show because somewhere deep inside I believed I was responsible for keeping the performers safe. I’m not kidding. Given the amount of talent, professionalism and training of the performers and my little seat in the 35th row, that was clearly a delusional belief.
Dear Friends,
I hope that you are managing to live with some ease.
I wanted to share about a practice - using the word AND to include all aspects of a situation - that has come up for me in a few places lately.
At a recent retreat at Blue Cliff Monastery, a Buddhist monastic shared her practice of AND as a pathway to generating happiness, AND as a way to let go of polarizing concepts, such as right and wrong.