I caught myself out the other day, making fun of myself to my partner, PB. I said, 'The world isn't good enough for me. People aren't good enough, and I'm not good enough. I'm going to have words with God.'
I really need to listen to myself here! Pema Chodron, in a talk I've listened to, says something like, 'Lower your standards, and enjoy life...' (I'll look up the exact wording.)
In particular, though I need constant forgiveness, I've been hanging on to resentment and unforgiveness in the deluded hope that it will prevent me from ever being hurt again. Instead, what it's doing is eating me up inside, making it impossible for me to trust anyone, and isolating me from any community I may once have been a part of.
It's time to let go...
'La grande famille,' by Rene Magritte, downloaded 20th January, 2010, from:
http://en.easyart.com/art-print-search/pigeons.html.
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