“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you fall. You hurt. But, you keep going.” ~Yasmin Mogahed
I saw this dandelion growing out of the side of a tree on a walk this week, and it made me think of the power of resilience in being able to keep going through every challenge.
“The human heart is exquisitely fragile. Our judgements need to be gentle, our understanding deep, and our forgiveness wide.” ~Ron Rolheiser
This is so true of how we should treat others. It’s also true of how we should be treating ourselves!
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“When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.” ~Ram Dass
By seeing each person we meet as the Beloved as we move through our days, we not only encourage each one to blossom into their best selves, we also create a more beautiful place for ourselves to live in.
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” ~Pema Chödrön
I love this description of where healing come from. It’s not about fixing anything; it’s just about making room for the continual process of death and resurrection and all of the emotions that go along with that.
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” ~C.S. Lewis
Sometimes letting go of whatever has caused us pain is the hardest thing to do, but it’s still a necessary step toward moving forward into healing.
What do you need to let go of?
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