Something Helpless
06.24.08 (8:15 am) [edit]
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love. -Rainer Maria Rilke
We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others. Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground.
- Pema Chodron, In the Gap Between Right and Wrong
posted by: PirateGirl (reply)
post date: 06.24.08 (7:58 am)
Thanks - I needed to hear that :)
posted by: mimi (reply)
post date: 06.24.08 (1:34 pm)
i often ask myself "do i want to be right or do i want to be happy?"
xoxo
posted by: rosietulips (reply)
post date: 06.24.08 (9:52 pm)
For a while I was reading some Louise Hay book, and she was all about not letting people make you feel a certain way. She talked a lot about loving yourself and forgiving. Not easy!
posted by: lostin2007 (reply)
post date: 06.25.08 (9:24 pm)
i love that. thanks for sharing.
