I'm always amazed when I find myself learning things about the way I work. I know that it shouldn't come as any surprise, because there are so many layers of ourselves that we deny and keep hidden away but the moment of realizing habits, patterns, and conditioning of mine is always an amazing experience. It's feels like a window is opened a tiny bit more light is shed upon who I am and why I do what I do. It's amazing because it also brings with it compassion, love, and understanding. With each new pattern or habit uncovered, I feel my self-compassion grow. I see how I cause myself suffering and how easily I can release that habit just by acknowledging it, having compassion for it and releasing it.
With that same idea, compassion for all people can grow as I know every human being has patterns and habits just as I do. Patterns that cause unnecessary suffering and pain. Patterns that can be released with compassion, love, and acknowledgement.
I am not alone with my struggles or my conditioning. And neither is who I am. Habits and conditioning that have caused suffering in the past need not be repeated in the future. By seeing them, acknowledging them and releasing them, I can choose a different path. A path of self-love, compassion, and acceptance. A path that spreads to encompass as human beings who have similar conditioning, habits and suffering.
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