02/16/2024
This is one of my favorite quotes. This is the power of showing up just as we are. No need to change anyone, just holding each other exactly as we are. In every interaction, we are just walking each other home.
I love this perspective from Ram Dass. To step into mastery in relationships and life we need to learn how to walk side-by-side, shoulder-to-shoulder. And to also honour that in walking our path together, sometimes our paths diverge.
We normally see this from the lens that the diversion itself is a failure. What if honouring one another’s path is actually success? What if the diversion is necessary? (It must be… because it’s happening.)
I don’t stay stuck wishing to change the past or try to control the future. Both of this are traps and illusions. All we can control is who we are and how we show up… and how arrogant of us to believe that we can control and predict not only life, but that WE KNOW what’s better for someone than where they are being called to go.
This is a really challenging position to hold — because it requires being with the pain that separations and departures bring. And what I’m saying is not to minimize this pain… but the reason the pain stays for a lifetime is because we live with the belief that it should be different.
Trusting your path is trusting another’s.
I’m not a religious man — but the saying “let go and let god” actually has a lot of truth and merit.
We can either exhale and trust that life is bringing us where we are meant to be, or not. One is liberating, the other a prison. You choose.
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