“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.”
~ Pema Chodron, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
If you think about it, I mean really make the time to sit quietly and allow the emotional wave roiling up inside you, you may find it very intense at first. But then, if you allow it, something different happens.
The thing that was big, uncomfortable, and scary changes.
If you think about it, I mean really sit quietly and reflect and watch it, the energy that was your emotion becomes a new thing. A thing you had previously no ideas about. It becomes a guide to a place unknown.
That's why it felt big. That's why it felt uncomfortable. That's why you were afraid.
And then something amazing may happen...if you think about it, if you really create the time to sit really quietly, and really allow, and really reflect, and really watch. This is where your Truth is. And once you divine your Truth you can then easily stand in it. This is a feeling of Confidence, but like never before. This is Confidence without Ego.
I know this Truth. I have found great comfort here. I wish you the same vast, wordless, bliss-filled space.
How do you comfort yourself?
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