212: Always Be Vulnerable to All That You Are

When we learn to include more and more of ourselves, we also become more able to include more and more of one another. Being able to do this - to welcome that in us that's fearful, ashamed or lonely, as well as what's joyful, grateful and love-filled - is greatly helped by finding the bigger-something that we are... the something of us that's wide and deep, curious and compassionate and which is, essentially, welcome. And that's something we can also help one another with.

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Here's our source for this week:

VULNERABLE

Always be vulnerable

To your pain, your fear, your loneliness,

To your pleasure too, and your joy,

To all that travels through you.

Don’t close the doors

To these pilgrims from a far-off land,

But welcome them all ---

One a wild, restless spirit

Secretly longing to be tamed, 

Another a lover on a long, sweet night,

Who only wants to melt in your embrace.

For this is how you grow ---

By including everything.

Always, always be vulnerable 

To all that you are.

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