I love this. Too often we focus on other people's flaws and forget our own because it's easier and more convenient to judge, criticize, or place blame elsewhere. I am guilty of it myself and over the years I've come to realize that whenever I notice an imperfection in someone else, I am often being shown something within myself that still needs understanding, healing, acceptance or compassion.
Your reflection is beautiful. What stood out to me most was not the yoga teacher herself but your willingness to recognize the judgment arising within you and then consciously choose love and compassion instead. That takes awareness, humility, and courage.
The reminder of our shared humanity and the certainty that one day we will all leave this world has a way of dissolving many of the stories we create about one another. Beneath our different appearances, choices, and life paths, we are all doing the best we can with the level of consciousness and understanding we have in each moment.
Loïc, thank you for sharing this reflection. It is a beautiful reminder that compassion begins when we stop seeing "them" and start reconizing ourselves in one another.
This entry is truly profound and powerful. It allows me to transmute the dread of the end that sometimes dwells within me into a much vaster vision—into a state of constant observation and contemplation of the inner and outer worlds, and the porosity between them. A thousand thanks Loic. (reply tranduit par mon traducteur, désolé s'il y a des coquilles, merci pour ta compréhension)
Thanks Sidoine, I am glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your comments on how profound and powerful you found it. This is what I am doing now: observing all the time, observing myself constantly and my reactions to everything and everyone, and always working on bringing distance to any emotions, judgment, or any old patterns coming in. Thank you!
Hey Dean, thanks. I sing every day, but in private for the time being; who knows, maybe I will decide to share my songs too one day! Thanks for the motivation :)
Stephen Bachelor: “Since death alone is certain and the time of death uncertain, what should I do?”
Enjoy every minute of life no matter what
I love this. Too often we focus on other people's flaws and forget our own because it's easier and more convenient to judge, criticize, or place blame elsewhere. I am guilty of it myself and over the years I've come to realize that whenever I notice an imperfection in someone else, I am often being shown something within myself that still needs understanding, healing, acceptance or compassion.
Your reflection is beautiful. What stood out to me most was not the yoga teacher herself but your willingness to recognize the judgment arising within you and then consciously choose love and compassion instead. That takes awareness, humility, and courage.
The reminder of our shared humanity and the certainty that one day we will all leave this world has a way of dissolving many of the stories we create about one another. Beneath our different appearances, choices, and life paths, we are all doing the best we can with the level of consciousness and understanding we have in each moment.
Loïc, thank you for sharing this reflection. It is a beautiful reminder that compassion begins when we stop seeing "them" and start reconizing ourselves in one another.
Thank you! She wasn’t the yoga teacher, she was a student who came for a class posting videos and monitoring comments while she was doing the class!
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This entry is truly profound and powerful. It allows me to transmute the dread of the end that sometimes dwells within me into a much vaster vision—into a state of constant observation and contemplation of the inner and outer worlds, and the porosity between them. A thousand thanks Loic. (reply tranduit par mon traducteur, désolé s'il y a des coquilles, merci pour ta compréhension)
Thanks Sidoine, I am glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your comments on how profound and powerful you found it. This is what I am doing now: observing all the time, observing myself constantly and my reactions to everything and everyone, and always working on bringing distance to any emotions, judgment, or any old patterns coming in. Thank you!
"writing mainly to remind myself" - absolutely - and sing as you go :)
Hey Dean, thanks. I sing every day, but in private for the time being; who knows, maybe I will decide to share my songs too one day! Thanks for the motivation :)
Merci Loïc, it’s exactly what I needed to read today.
glad the message in a bottle was helpful at least to you!