A Return To Love

[heads-up that this is a more vulnerable piece about my spirituality journey]

beautiful world from my room window

Following up from my last post, I'm writing this to express a return to love. The last post might have seemed like a frustrated one, but I assure you it's not. Even anger is a shade of love. Anger that comes from a place of fear or ego, is very much different from anger that comes from a place of love. How else are we to empathize with those who are mistreated and taken advantage of? Our anger on behalf of them is an intolerance towards violence and injustice, and is an act of compassion in itself. I have to constantly remind myself, whenever such a feeling starts to creep in, any feeling at all which we might mostly consider 'negative', to sit with it, feel it fully, and let it out healthily if I have to, and all the way, because to pent it in would allow it to latch onto us and so we'd be carrying it around for days, and risk letting it consume us.

Thoughts On The World - A Ramble

How quickly things can change over the course of a few months or a year! I mean this with regards to my 'sustainability' journey (and when I say 'sustainability' I don't refer just to the environment, but to the way we sustain ourselves, physically and emotionally, our relationships with ourselves, people around us, and of course, the earth). This meme I came across some days ago perfectly sums up one of those big changes: