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When we are vulnerable, we are left open to the possibility of being harmed, taken advantage of, criticized, or rejected. Vulnerability can make us feel intensely uncomfortable, so it’s something we usually try hard to avoid. But accepting and embracing vulnerability remains the key requirement of intimacy and deep personal connection. The courage and willingness to voluntarily risk rejection by opening ourselves up to others can be found in a practice of self-love and acceptance of our own self-worth.

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FindCenterThe physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, that whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance.

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FindCenterVulnerability is built into our hearts, which can be sliced open at any moment by some sudden shift in the arrangements, some pain, some horror, some hurt. We all know and instinctively fear this, so we protect our hearts by covering them against exposure. But this doesn’t work.

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FindCenterWe realize how dangerous and painful life is if we don’t open up. We know we have to do it.

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FindCenterOur scars are part of our story, but they are not its conclusion. The past is ours and will always be a part of us, and yet it is not all there is. It’s a process, moving from wounds to scars to grief to showing those scars.

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FindCenterTo allow our hearts to break, to soften them, to sink deeply into the knowing that everything will fall, everything will pass, everything will crumble, can be the great portal to awakening. We simply stop taking everything for granted. We stop living in ‘tomorrow’ and turn toward the living day.

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FindCenterThe engine that makes this go is taking a step back and trusting the body, trusting the breath, trusting the heart.

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FindCenterI need a place to confess that I don’t have everything figured out.

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FindCenterAbundance is the feeling of the afternoon breeze on your cheeks, the sun warming your face. It is meeting others in the field of honesty and vulnerability, connecting beyond the story, sharing what is alive.

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FindCenterExcessive analysis perpetuates emotional paralysis. Knowing our issues is not the same as healing our issues. In fact, knowing is often a willful act, entirely incongruent with the experience of surrender required to heal.

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FindCenterWounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people.

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