Receiving Our Relationships

We are often not aware how full of expectations our relationships are—that we should be considered, understood, and done right by. Unstated rules, for the conduct of ourselves or another, lie like land mines on the path of our connections. The conditioned sense of one’s rights, or lack of rights, ignores the holy sanctity that is at the core of each person.

To receive another at any depth, we must first receive ourselves in depth. If we really accept that from birth our being is holy and precious, we will learn to have reverence for our lives...

M E D I T A T I O N

Again and again
our usual reactivity surfaces
when someone slights us, deliberately or accidentally.
We want to defend ourselves, or more accurately...

Taken from Simple ways by Gunilla Norris