....contemplation gradually opens our hearts, minds, and bodies to Love as our True Self. -- Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation."
As I read the above quote (which I had saved from I know not when), I had a blinding flash of the obvious: How others see me is my invitation sent out from me which is being returned to me so that I may see me as I appear to others and thus accept, with grace, their reaction to me.
There. That is the fruit of our daily meditation...our walking around world gradually changes from our feeling the need to guard our inner self to feeling a welcoming from our self outward.
It is by opening "our hearts, minds and bodies to Love as our True Self" that we are free from our own reactions...free to accept others' reactions to us just as they see us.
Thank you.
As I read the above quote (which I had saved from I know not when), I had a blinding flash of the obvious: How others see me is my invitation sent out from me which is being returned to me so that I may see me as I appear to others and thus accept, with grace, their reaction to me.
There. That is the fruit of our daily meditation...our walking around world gradually changes from our feeling the need to guard our inner self to feeling a welcoming from our self outward.
It is by opening "our hearts, minds and bodies to Love as our True Self" that we are free from our own reactions...free to accept others' reactions to us just as they see us.
Thank you.
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