Your Guilt Serves No One
Period.
We serve the world by showing up for ourselves, speaking our truths and by relentlessly seeking out and coming back to our truth.
This is love.
And when we love ourselves by practicing this — doing what we love, living in a place we love, surrounding ourselves with people we love and simply asking when we have no clue: “What do I love?”—we radiate love and this is what everyone on this planet needs to feel a little more of:
The embodiment of love.
Being yourself heals you and it heals the planet.
Having excessive guilt for your privilege, for surviving, for being this or that doesn’t serve anybody.
It keeps you small and above all: it disempowers the people you see as less privileged.
While we’re at it…caretaking others’ feelings by not setting boundaries, by not expressing your needs, by stifling anger or disappointment or any emotion that may lead another person to feel potentially uncomfortable is also demoralizing.
In what area of your life are you keeping yourself small?
What is one way in which you keep others small?
The greatest form of political activism we can engage in anywhere, anytime, anyplace is finding the courage to be ourselves.
The most powerful kind of revolution in my book.
On topic—A favorite poem of mine
A Brief for the Defense
-by Jack GilbertSorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.
But we enjoy our lives because that's what God wants.
Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not
be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not
be fashioned so miraculously well. The poor women
at the fountain are laughing together between
the suffering they have known and the awfulness
in their future, smiling and laughing while somebody
in the village is very sick. There is laughter
every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta,
and the women laugh in the cages of Bombay.
If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,
we lessen the importance of their deprivation.
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,
we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.
We must admit there will be music despite everything.
We stand at the prow again of a small ship
anchored late at night in the tiny port
looking over to the sleeping island: the waterfront
is three shuttered cafés and one naked light burning.
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
all the years of sorrow that are to come.
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