In the end, as in the beginning, there is only One of us.
One Love — at the heart of all things — that frees us the moment we surrender to it.
May you find your way there now.
– Nigel Lott
We never put another being out of our hearts without, in equal measure, putting ourselves out of our own. As long as we hold resentment — a posture of non-forgiveness — we are denying ourselves the very Love and peace we long for.
We are, quite simply, hurting ourselves.
That anger, that fear, that grief we clutch like armor — it poisons the very system it’s meant to protect.
And by all means, sometimes it is entirely reasonable — even necessary — to feel anger (which is, at its core, always grief) and to remove ourselves from the presence of someone whose behavior harms.
Boundaries matter. Safety matters.
But what we do with our reaction — emotionally, spiritually, psychologically — is our own sacred work. Always.
We will never free ourselves from suffering by projecting it outward. We may need to rage, to cry, to tremble — but we must also return. Because to stay in anger is to stay stuck.
And there is no redemption in being stuck.
Freedom begins when we grieve the perceived loss of Love.
Even that loss — if we dare to look — is illusion.
The other is only ever a mirror, a reflection of where we have withheld Love within.
And so, we return to the heart.
And when we do — when we allow ourselves back into the grace that has never left us — something shifts. A space opens. And without words, without action, we offer healing to the very being we once resented. Not by fixing them.
But by coming home to ourselves.
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