[Vulnerability and Power - XXIX]
Belonging to a community sustains us. How about belonging to yourself? Have you denied a part of yourself, effectively creating an internal, sustained disunity?
Welcoming the stranger is a radical extension of belonging. It gives the gift of life to an other. Have you not welcomed the stranger within, the parts of you that are unfamiliar and foreign? Have you denied yourself life?
Sitting with others in pain builds connections beyond difference. It affirms togetherness over separation. Have you allowed yourself to feel those dark emotions? Have you sat long enough in your own pain, or have you tried to bypass it for now, only for it to wage war on your wellbeing later?
Sit with yourself.
Don’t write that part of you off.
Be patient with that other part.
Relax.
Powerful, isn’t it?
