This is beautifully put, and resonant. Learning to love people that I struggled to - starting with my mother, and more recently old friends - has been some of the most meaningful and rewarding efforts of my life. It’s forced me to see my blind spots and to learn to love them, to also be able to love the others patterns more deeply. There’s soooo much richness in learning to meet others where they’re at, and what in me makes that hard. Your last paragraph reminds me of “relationships as spiritual practice”, the practice I’ve been most devoted to over the last few years
Truly masterful. Conceptually and in articulation. I will read this many many times as life presses on. Wow. Astounded.
This is beautifully put, and resonant. Learning to love people that I struggled to - starting with my mother, and more recently old friends - has been some of the most meaningful and rewarding efforts of my life. It’s forced me to see my blind spots and to learn to love them, to also be able to love the others patterns more deeply. There’s soooo much richness in learning to meet others where they’re at, and what in me makes that hard. Your last paragraph reminds me of “relationships as spiritual practice”, the practice I’ve been most devoted to over the last few years
beautiful, thank you, i love you
🙏 ly2