“What we have named as anger on the surface is the violent outer response to our own inner powerlessness, a powerlessness connected to such a profound sense of rawness and care that it can find no proper outer body or identity or voice, or way of life to hold it. What we call anger is often simply the unwillingness to live the full measure of our fears or of our not knowing, in the face of [love]…” -David Whyte
Living with my “not knowing” sums up the month of May for me. It included hope but also, powerlessness. 😥 BUT—I was fueled by a sense of something sturdier and being determined to move toward a new freedom.
- Frankly, that “new freedom” mindset actually started for me in February, when I started to hold fast to hope and joy as a practice (even when that felt impossible).