Being Point

Tag: vulnerability

  • Capacity Is The Ability To Receive, To Stand Up To And Tolerate – Often, Even To Bless – The Welcome Of The Shouldered Load

    What is your ability to take on the world? How much can you take? How much is worth taking? How much is worth holding? Are you asking these questions of yourself? What is your capacity?

    Capacity is rarely addressed because we enjoy and hide behind the delusion that we can handle it all. Entrepreneurs, especially, tend to take on as much as they fantasize they can handle. Part of the trick is to reach far enough, but not too far. Lifetimes are spent learning the best in-between points.

    What is your capacity for: Joy, Freedom, Pain, Accomplishment, Love, Suffering, Companionship, Family, Intimacy, Vulnerability, Loss? What are your limits to fully experiencing the human condition?

    Capacity is the ability to receive, to stand up to and tolerate – often, even to bless – the welcome of the shouldered load.

  • “Love Is A Warrior’s Sword; Wherever It Cuts, It Gives Life, Not Death” ~ Dan Millman

    Any sincere discussion about an open mind will ultimately lead to consideration of having an open heart because, after all, what we are really talking about is *being* open.

    Dan Millman, one of my favorite authors and teachers, wrote:

    “You haven’t opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior’s way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability – to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt.  All along, I have shown you by example that a warrior’s life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior’s sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.” (Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives – buy it; you’ll love it!)

    Are you living with your heart wide open?  How do you feel when both your mind and your heart are wide open?  How have you felt when one or both have been shut down?  How have you opened up when you have been unavailable?