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To Love It All

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The arrogant one
The fraudulent and untruthful one
The one with complete lack of integrity
The narcissistic and the deluded one
The selfish and self-centered one
The unjust and angry one
The petulant and unreasonable one
The unkind, uncompassionate and unloving one

It is our job to make friends with all these aspects of our self and not just the aspects that are easy to love.

It is our job to find love and compassion for those parts that are hardest to accept.

To forgive ourselves for rejecting and excluding that which so desperately wants to find its place, its home too.

This is the job of work to do.

For if not now, then when? If not you, then who?

This is where life is calling out in pain and suffering.

To love that which is hardest to love, hardest to accept.

To stand shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, closer than close with the unloveable, unworthy, unsightly.

To meet with space, and love, and compassion those aspects that feel unmeetable.

For there is room for all in this vast space of being-ness, this constant changing play and display of life.

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman… probably one of my favourite all time quotes.

Love excludes none and includes all.
Freedom excludes none and includes all.
Life excludes none and includes all.

Can you exclude none and include all?
Can you be the room for both-and not either-or?
Can you bring into the fold, into the inner sanctuary of Being the love, the tenderness and the compassion for even the sinner and tax collector in you.

For it is easy to love your friends, but what about your enemies?

Ideas many associate with Jesus’ teachings, but look beyond the voice that says it, to the meaning and the truth behind it. See what it points to.

The suffering born of separation comes from the abandonment of loving all, the abandonment of seeing yourself reflected right back at you in all of the forms and shapes of life. Be it on a individual internal scale, a familial scale or even a societal and a global scale.

The ability to not other’ize’ and alienate any aspect of life goes hand in hand with the ability to see yourself in it all.

To include and love it all.

To make peace and friends with it all.

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