No enemies

[sabrinamari]

The daring of having no enemies

Whether it’s ourselves, lovers, bosses, children, a local Scrooge, or the political situation, it’s more daring and real not to shut anyone out of our hearts and not to make the other into an enemy. If we begin to live like this, we’ll find that we can’t make things completely right or completely wrong anymore, because things are a lot more slippery and playful than that. Everything is ambiguous, everything is always shifting and changing, and there are as many different takes on any given situation as there are people involved. Trying to find absolute right and wrongs is a trick we play on ourselves to feel secure and comfortable.

Pena Chodron

Comments

[showingup.livejournal.com]

Yes! This! Also, being furious/freaked out takes up so much energy.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you've hit the nail on the head. It's so much easier to assume that other people have plenty to offer, even when you don't understand what it is yet, or where they are coming from.

Chill out, live longer.