Wed Oct 23, 2024by Toby on TwosWhen things fall apart around us, and they most certainly will to one degree another, we are left with what has been formed within us. Whether that is beneficial or detrimental is entirely up to us individually. Neglect of one's inwardness ensures added suffering. It's never too late to come home to yourself to water and nurture the garden of that inwardness. The generosity and kindness we each need, the world desperately needs, begins with a generosity toward our own selves. Culture around us pretends to offer relief from our inner neglect whereby we only end up trying to suppress or ignore it, or indulge in it by agreeing with the dysfunctional narratives in our heads, or to attempt to bandage it with well intended self help remedies, religiously imposed mental gymnastics and so on. Ultimately the only cure comes from within. You can't heal what you can't feel. You can't give what you don't have. Radical love and acceptance of our self is an essential ingredient to the healing we need individually and universally. May those who will shape tomorrow be those who are reshaping ourselves today.