The imperfect humans

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Part of the work to do in the spiritual path is to recognize that we live in a culture that can be oppressive in its demands for perfection and positivity. Margarita Photo: Two trees by the road. 2020

‘Naming love too early is a beautiful but harrowing human difficulty. Most of our heartbreak comes from attempting to name who or what we love and the way we love, too early in the vulnerable journey of discovery. We can never know in the beginning, in giving ourselves to a person, to a work, to a marriage or to a cause, exactly what kind of love we are involved with. When we demand a certain specific kind of reciprocation before the revelation has flowered completely we fin...d ourselves disappointed and bereaved and in that grief may miss the particular form of love that is actually possible but that did not meet our initial and too specific expectations. Feeling bereft we take our identity as one who is disappointed in love, our almost proud disappointment preventing us from seeing the lack of reciprocation from the person or the situation as simply a difficult invitation into a deeper and as yet unrecognizable form of affection. The act of loving itself, always becomes a path of humble apprenticeship, not only in following its difficult way and discovering its different forms of humility and beautiful abasement, but strangely, through its fierce introduction to all its many astonishing and different forms, where we are asked continually and against our will, to give in so many different ways, without knowing exactly, or in what way, when or how, the mysterious gift will be returned.’ David Whyte Photo: outliving blooming. Margarita, 2021 #davidwhyte #poetry #ValentinesDay2021 #relationships #griefandloss #griefjourney

When I go for a walk alone, I 'lose myself.' And, that's a good thing. When I lose myself walking in nature, I can hear and see things that I often miss if I am busy with myself or someone else's story. When I lose myself in my walks, I can hear nature speak up, and I just need to pay attention and listen to its messages. When I return from those walks, I often notice something in the inner landscape of myself shifts. M ... Photo: Margarita walking on a frozen lake, 2018 #duskhoursphotography #griefhealing #griefandloss #loseyourself #buddhismteachings #mindfulwalking #contemplativephotography #contemplativeart #contemplativepractice #griefandloss #griefandgratitude #therapy #psychology #natureisbeautiful #naturetherapy

'I developed a kind of kinship with dusk and moonrise. In dim light just before complete darkness, I feel an unavoidable rush of melancholia when my sorrows and wounds seem to arise. And when I let that grief flow freely, I can clearly feel the joy that the colours and shades of dusk are asserting in front of me wanting to be seen.' M Photo: Margarita #sunset #duskhoursphotography #griefhealing #moonrise #darkphotography #poetrycommunity #healingenergy #healingart #griefandloss #griefcounseling #beauty

"The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome,... and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self." by Derek Walcott, born on this day in 1930 #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #derekwalcott #selflovematters #healingprocess #griefandloss See more

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. David Whyte is a poet and philosopher who believes in the power of a beautiful question Photo: Margarita ‘Magic árbol’, 2018 #griefjourney #poetrylovers #healingpoem #wellbeing #naturesbeauty #photographyislife #alonetogether #yogainspiration