Let’s do this!
We are love. We have the capacity to love. We can make the choice to love. We are one in love. Think love. Speak love. Be love.
Love Is Simple
We have found different ways and words to justify the judgment of others. Social media and cancel culture. Anonymous attacks to expose. All done for the greater good. Shaming, in any context, does not teach or heal. We have become so removed from love energy that it is no longer our primary expression with each other. We reserve it as we create conditions. We deny it to determine if it’s deserved. We preach oneness and practice separation. We ask for positivity and share negativity. Love is simple, but we’ve made loving difficult.
Hard Truth
How you speak to yourself and treat yourself makes all the difference in the world. We want to thrive and grow. We have hurt that needs healing. We have dreams we yearn to pursue. In all of it, being honest and meeting ourselves where we are at deserves our tenderness, our compassion, our patience. Though the truth may be hard, how we move into and through it can be graceful.
Empathy
Let’s stimulate empathy. Let’s grow empathy. Let’s create opportunities for empathy. Let’s reward empathy. Let’s have the biggest empathy.
This may seem like a political statement, but it’s not. It’s from my heart. It’s from my soul.
Patience To Heal
Life is filled with joy and pain. And when we are joyous, we don’t want it to end. But when we are hurt, we lack patience for the healing process. We are closed off to recognizing that healing can take on many forms and be an experience of much diversity. Healing can be transformative and restorative.
The not knowing is the challenge. When? How?
Healing can be transformative in that your whole life changes AND your pain subsides. But healing can be restorative in that you gain a deeper understanding of the situation or person you feel hurt by. Your lessons help you so that you can re-engage in a healthier, more grounded way.
Pain doesn’t always lead to loss or end. Healing can reveal the pain is resulting from misunderstanding. From that lesson, healing can better equip you with compassion, empathy, patience to listen.
Healing can lead to new beginnings.
words on image: Michael Barata / image: Ümit Bulut
A Cup Of Self Awareness
Everybody is being so ignorant. Everybody is yelling at each other. Everybody is missing the point.
Really? Everybody?
Your "everybody" may simply be your narrow access point to humanity. A few co-workers or a neighbor or two or a couple of your friends and family or, of course, those people popping up on your social media. But really? Everybody?
You do realize that you are included in someone else's "everybody."
So, try seeing yourself as everybody. Do you hate you? Do you resent you? Are you ignorant to you? Are you yelling at yourself? Are you missing the point? How you think of and treat others is a reflection of your relationship with yourself. What you "expect" or "desire" from "everybody" cannot be realized unless you are truly being all of it.
I offer this cup of coffee to help start an honest conversation with yourself and with others.