Defend Your Heart

This entire quote could be a list of how to stay sane, don't you think?

* Keep my heart open no matter what is happening around me?

Talk about vulnerable, right? I get nervous when I think of this yet,

I know its the way to go but that doesn't make it any easier.

 * Forgive myself first so then I can be forgiving of others?
This is no small feat, although I am getting better at remembering

that forgiving myself is important no matter how much cringe/shame I feel.

 * "Slow down - taste and touch and feel and care?"
A long way to go in this department.  I seem to be programmed for rushing.

I'm doing my best to change that.

  * Creating what I want to see in this world, and staying curious?
It's so easy to mirror what is already here and what is here 

these days on the public stage and in much of the media is decidedly

not what I want to see in this world.  It takes effort to disconnect from

fear and dismay and concentrate on bravery and changing the tone.

* Honouring my joy, and not shying away from the good that is trying to reach me 

—and convincing myself  that I am  worthy of it"?

Whoa!  This is where things require intense scrutiny on the inner plain...the outdated

scripts have hummed so long and are so deeply rooted that repotting them takes real effort.

* "Strong enough to be gentle? Brave enough to break?"
I'm ok with being gentle most of the time.  Am I brave enough to break?

I tell myself I am, but I wonder how that will hold up in a moment of reckoning?

* "Being all that I can be"?  

I don't see any way to avoid that! 

I am who I am for better or worse, thank you very much.

Namaste'