Aversion and fear do so often motivate our actions from an unconscious level. I like to check what posts are being read in daily stats because often I forget posts from a few years ago. This is an excerpt from Stephen Levine which seemed on point for today.
Relationships do not end when a person dies. Some other aspect of it deepens and begins. Your relationship isn’t over, it is just no longer externalized. The pain involved is the consequence of love. That’s what love costs. Some people say the price of love is too high. They will take many incarnations to get by that fear, which is fine. However, there is a point in which fear does not lead our life anymore. We are willing to love even if it is painful at times. I become ecstatic when I talk about what is on the other side of the pain, but it is not right for me to say your pain will go away after a one-year practice, because it may not. It will start to recede in the background and float in something bigger than your pain.
The way we respond to pain is the way…
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