Let’s turn it around again.
I would like to quickly change perspective. It is easy to get caught in anger and judgment. It is easy for me to judge those who I perceive to be judging. It is more helpful for me to turn it around again to a sense of gratefulness.
I really am blessed. I have enough to eat, I am warm, I have two wonderful kids, I live in a community where I have friends who I love and who love me. I have a sense of purpose now which is still developing.
I do, occasionally, fall and need to be helped up again. I am human. I ask for help. Maybe admitting this vulnerability and asking for help is a gift: the gift of the opportunity for someone else to give and be helpful.
We really need each other. I think that we are just pretending when we say to ourselves that we are independent.
I have heard that it is possible to accept this interconnectedness, vulnerability and insecurity so deeply that a basic sense of love and wholeness emerges.
I quote here a series of sentences that a friend offered to me which helps me when I repeat it like a mantra:
Could I can let go of wanting to figure things out?
Could I let go of wanting to know what to do?
Could I let go of wanting to know the answers?
Could I let go of wanting to know anything (for this moment) right now?
Could I let go of wanting to think?
And again and again.
tagged: anger, gratefulness, insecurity, judgment, purpose, vulnerability, wholeness
February 24th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Gratitude for what is, is the way. Knowing that judgement only defines the one who is doing the judging is another step in the journey to love and love is enlightenment. Suze you are a teacher. Thank you for my lesson.
February 24th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Thank you Dave. We all learn from each other, don’t we?
Someone gave me a plastic bracelet today that says: “A Complaint Free World.org”. I am supposed to pass the bracelet from one wrist to the other every time I complain about something to myself. I start off by complaining to myself about the bracelet itself. “Why shouldn’t I complain? I’m human, aren’t I?” And then I realize that I am basically saying that I can be miserable if I want to, thank you very much! Which is, of course, true. Maybe I will use this bracelet to help me be aware of how much I do complain and rebel against what life brings me.
I still am not certain, however, about how to approach that which I believe should be corrected. How do we correct that which is harmful without going through the complaining process? This part I am not clear on.