6-14-20

My need to belong has always been a small betrayal of myself.

There is always a part of me that I feel I must keep hidden.

It has meant that every relationship is based on suspicion.

Are you safe, am I going to get hurt?

Meditation has helped me to see:

Relationship? Of course I am going to get hurt.

That is not a problem, what other people say or do is not my problem.

When I accept every part of me, other opinions won’t matter.

Getting hurt doesn’t hurt very much anymore.

Thank you for bringing me closer to this truth,

so that I may trust others more, love them more fully.