When we feel the weight of love and joy for the people we care about, we begin to feel the full potency of loss.
Love’s near other is loss.
This surge of pending grief can be almost too much to bear, but if we find a vessel, a holding, a way of living to contain and channel this reality, this has the potential to fully awaken us to the participation of living with presence.
Living with presence in a way that is accord to our true intentions, while penetrating through the noise that permeates most of our existence.
Ruyard Kipling wrote
“Brothers and sisters I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog
To tear.”
and this allows us to cherish whoever or whatever is dear to us. Thanks for the reminder of the possibility of such a quiet tenderness.