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[sabrinamari]

Don’t let life harden your heart

When I was about six years old I received an essential teaching from an old woman sitting in the sun. I was walking by her house one day feeling lonely, unloved, and mad, kicking anything I could find. Laughing, she said to me, ”Little girl, don’t you go letting life harden your heart.”
Right there I received this pithy instruction: we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

Pema Chodron

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I don't want to get harder. I want to get softer and sweeter as well as stronger. : )

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[showingup.livejournal.com]

Riper, juicier, and packed with vitamin goodness :)

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Yes! Healthier, too.

Sometimes people confuse softness with weakness. That just isn't true. I notice that more often, weakness manifests itself as rigidity and harshness as humans seek to build themselves some kind of structural security. It doesn't work often.