RE: The Purpose of Life by Ravenking
This beautifully written piece had me nodding my head all the way through - so many excellent ideas to consider! I really think I could create a whole post simply responding to quotes from your post. You are very, very wise. What stuck the center of me at this point in my journey is this:
slowly I should realize at some point, that whatever I see in another is also to be found within me, even though I might not be aware of it. So as I try to understand the other, I begin to gain actually greater understanding about myself and all the facets hidden within me.
I am struggling with relationship dynamics within my family centered around differing values and beliefs. The way you reminded me that those around us are mirrors of our own soul has truly nourished my heart today. Thank you 🌱
@bia.birch Thank you so much for the wonderful reply, it is encouraging to hear that you could find food for thought in this sharing.
Once we see our differences as merely mirrors to different facets of each others soul, we are no longer bound to suffer the differences, but ready to embrace the beauty of the occasional suffering that comes from being uniquely different, no longer a victim of it, but a being capable of bearing it, not as something painful, but as a token of love. A reminder that I only suffer where our differences still create tensions and war, but knowing I suffer only because of the love I share from feeling that deep down beyond all differences we share the same heart.
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