I was reading from “Life is a Verb” last night, and something struck me. I thought I would write it down while it was fresh in my mind. It goes like this:
“Creating inclusion [a simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from our own] requires being generous. Most often it consists of simply extending a hand. That’s hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your sand, your rightness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.”
I think it’s safe to say that there are a lot of us grasping tightly onto our belief system. One of the goals of my life over the last several months has been to be as generous as I have always wanted to be.
It’s a part of remaking myself.