You’re going to hurt other people.
Even though you don’t want to.
Even though you don’t mean to.
To no fault of your own.
You’re going to hurt someone.
We’re all bumping up against each other with our cravings and sensibilities,
reaching clumsily for fulfillment.
We bond and then unbind.
We stretch our arms to grab more life,
and we give someone a black eye.
Egos get hurt; vows are broken; fires doused.
Becoming whole leaves breakage.
Why does it help to know the inevitability of hurting someone?
It helps to know of this inevitability
so that you don’t retreat when you need to lift off,
so that you choose to leave the house of familiarity
for Morocco, or Broadway, or love.
Or the center of your Soul.
It helps to know how nature works when you are exploring wilderness
(post by Danielle LaPorte)
