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When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.
The (narcissitic) rage may turn into, or be accompanied by, a cold hatred that gives her qualities of power, invincibility, and calculation. This hatred underlies the desire for vengeance, for wanting to inflict pain and suffering, and for actually enjoying getting back at the person who failed her.
When are you going to let yourself descend from your lofty preoccupations, and simply land where you are?
Love, compassion, kindness, and generosity change their function from being motivations for practice to becoming expressions of realization.
Practice is the interest, the love, the drive, the tendency, the movement, to be as authentic as possible, to be as real as possible.
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Your conflicts, all the difficult things, the problematic situations in your life are not chance or haphazard. They are actually yours. They are specifically yours, designed specifically for you by a part of you that loves you more than anything else.
Sometimes being real means allowing pain or accepting a painful truth. Yet something in us aligns with an inner ground of authenticity when we are real. We love it because of its inherent rightness in our soul, the sense of, ‘Aha, here I am and there is nothing to do but be.’
Your environment wasn’t supportive, wasn’t loving, did not respond to you . . . The fundamental thing that happened, and the greatest calamity, is not that there was no love or support. The greater calamity, which is caused by the first calamity, is that you lost the connection to your essence.
. . . Joy is the radiance of the heart when Truth is appreciated.
When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.
