I am a wanderer. I would say that I am a seeker, but sometimes I have no idea what I might be seeking, so I will stick with wanderer. This blog is more a public journal than anything. I don't claim to have life figured out. I simply stumble from mystery to mystery, and share my reflections along the way. Sometimes I feel burdened, and trudge. Sometimes? Well sometimes grace breaks through, and its time to dance.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Suffering Spilling Over
“When another person makes you suffer, it is
because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over.
He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh
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it was a bad moment
the words hurt
the attitude hurt
the behavior infuriated
I felt small
And rejected
and all those old thoughts
of “I am not enough”
surfaced
I wanted to strike back
I wanted to find a way
to diminish them, the way they had diminished me
and then the thought came
fleeting and weak
and then it came again
“how would I have to feel, to behave that like?”
“how have I felt, when I have behaved like that?”
(for I have had moments when I behaved, badly)
and in a moment
in the twinkling of an eye
all was changed
(and tried very hard not to pass it on)
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