In THE BOOK OF AWAKENING (I am reading one reflection per day this entire year), Mark Nepo speaks regularly of the need to be honest about one’s own feelings (whether it be sad, angry, hurt, light hearted, filled with love) to ourselves and to others. To voice, compassionately, what one is truly feeling inside. To express the truth of who we internally are, instead of creating a facade to present to the world.
My writing is not as poetic as Nepo’s. He words things like this:
As the sun cannot withhold its light, we cannot what feels real. As the Earth keeps going by turning itself toward the light day after day, we have no choice, despite all forms of etiquette and training, but to keep turning toward what we feel is real. Otherwise, we become cold little planets spinning in the dark.
Don’t withhold your light. Share it.
Authentically Yours,
Laura
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