When we open ourselves this way, we become malleable, liable to be shaped by the world we live in, implicated in it, embedded in it, stained in its mud and shot through with its illumination.
A willing participant in the world, open to its pain and also its joy.
Roger Housden in Ten Poems to Change Your Life.
When We Open Ourselves This Way
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Yes! When we self-protect from the perceived “negative emotions”, we lose out on the positive ones as well. Bring on the pain and then the joy, in all its fullness.
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