What I know
Boxes are best used for storage and moving
not ideas and people
Fear is best experienced in small doses
and reserved for the known
We are meant to dance on the head of a pin,
boldly leap across great chasms
and embrace the raging fire within
Life is to be lived without reservation
experienced with curious daring
and relished with unbridled courage
The world is a wild and beautiful place
This I know.
How many times does fear paralyze us? We fear what we do not know —
the contact with an intimate stranger, sharing an idea at work, the forgiveness
of an estranged friend. Instead of
living without reservation, we place ideas and people in boxes convinced that
the ideas will not work or the person will never change.
The world is a wild and beautiful place where the seemingly
impossible happens at least twice each minute. But, our eyes are screwed
tightly shut. We cannot see the miracles unfolding in each moment. We fear what
may happen instead of meeting life with curious daring. We miss opportunities to
connect with another by saying I am hear (here).
I am hear (here)…what would you say? I am listening.
In that moment of connection, we dance on the head of the pin
together. Faster and faster we spin gaining speed. Hand in hand we shoot across
the chasm into the realm of compassionate living. We land not in a box but in
the beauty of the wild where we live without reservation.
Loving, laughing, living we are the gusto of compassion,
Vanessa
Vanessa F. Hurst is Compassion Officer at Intent &
Action. She is an Intuitive Coach,
Community Builder, and Author of Engaging Compassion Through Intent &Action and A Constellation of Connections: Contemplative Relationships
More from Vanessa: www.intentandaction.com
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