Walk A Mile In My Shoes
May. 16th, 2011 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
In truth, we drink from this great paradox daily: though everyone alive shares this moment we are living right now, no one experiences this moment more directly than you.
Landing back at Heathrow, I left a part of myself behind - yearning for the time when I'll return for it to become whole again. Apart, though there are people around me, I am just that - apart - unwhole. I don't know how many people can understand that... if any at all.
Sometimes I think that all the lawmakers in countries that won't allow for two people in love to live as a couple, should be forced to live apart from their spouses - to experience the incredible highs of coming off the plane and into the arms of the one they love - and the crushing blows of having no choice but to walk away in order to safeguard the ability - the permission to come back and spend a precious few days together again.
What arrogance!
But then - I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that such self-righteous superiority exists... You only have to look at the state of the world to know that.
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
-Rumi
In truth, we drink from this great paradox daily: though everyone alive shares this moment we are living right now, no one experiences this moment more directly than you.
Landing back at Heathrow, I left a part of myself behind - yearning for the time when I'll return for it to become whole again. Apart, though there are people around me, I am just that - apart - unwhole. I don't know how many people can understand that... if any at all.
Sometimes I think that all the lawmakers in countries that won't allow for two people in love to live as a couple, should be forced to live apart from their spouses - to experience the incredible highs of coming off the plane and into the arms of the one they love - and the crushing blows of having no choice but to walk away in order to safeguard the ability - the permission to come back and spend a precious few days together again.
What arrogance!
But then - I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that such self-righteous superiority exists... You only have to look at the state of the world to know that.
