A Meditation On When Our Best Falls Short

Isn’t there some common understanding that if we misstep first, we hope no one notices? Following that we feel surprised (maybe), and shame or regret. However, simultaneously, we often avoid identifying ourselves as the source of harm or discomfort.

If not, then how do we face what we’ve said or done? And how do we do that without making things worse for ourselves, and for those we’ve hurt? Maybe compassion and self-compassion are not so simple. Or maybe they’re simple but very much not so easy.

Transcript

Fall in love with the little girl and fall in love with pirate or might be a little boy or might be another gender but fall in love with that young innocent person and also fall in love with the pirate and begin to see with a lot of compassion the harm that the pirate has caused in the biggest possible container of self-compassion of love that we can possibly see it in and maybe to misquote Rilke to one day live into a way of apologizing.