The journey…

Right now, at this moment, this seems to me to be one of the most beautiful poems ever written…

I heard this in this podcast on the ‘Prodigal Son’ by Tara Brach. She says we need to start letting love in and start opening to where the suffering of separation is in our bodies and our hearts. If someone else is our focus of aversion — if we’re critical of someone else, it’s not until we open ourselves to compassion and include that person in our hearts that we can actually let love in ourselves. If we are judging another person or aversive to another person it’s not until we open our hearts to what we are aversive about whatever behavior or ways that that person is that we can actually let love in ourselves. We project the things we don’t like about ourselves on others. If we can begin to open to how others are living that thing we don’t like out, we can let love in and accept ourselves more. She discusses this at about 35 minutes into the talk, but you can listen to the whole thing here…