The More You Ignore The More We Are Going To Keep Pushing.

The more you ignore the more we are going to keep pushing.

Lydia Pettit (American, 1991) - Entry Points (2024)

When we are peaceful, we can be ourselves in a very honest way.

This is possible regardless of how we are feeling because peace is itself not an emotion.

Peace is an intrinsic quality of awareness, which is why peacefulness feels so grounding.

That groundedness is the most reliable support we have when encountering all of ourselves.

It is the antidote to our uptightness, to our inward cringing, and to our compulsion to accept or reject what we find inside.

We touch the ground, we are the ground, and we find that we have the space to meet whatever is there.

As awareness, we can be present with ourselves in complete honesty.

Then we will finally feel natural.

I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

Artist: 📸 The Pulp Girls

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