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Petrichor.
"A mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness; friendship not only helps us in seeing ourselves through another one's eyes; but, it can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in reciprocation. A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight; operating as a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion that we do not need them. An undercurrent of real friendship is a blessing exactly because its elemental form is rediscovered again and again through understanding and mercy. All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy, all friendships die.
In the course of the years a close friendship will always reveal the shadow in the other as much as ourselves. To remain friends, one must know the other and their difficulties and even their sins and encourage the best in them, not through critique but through addressing the better part of them, the leading creative edge of their incarnation; thus, subtly discouraging what makes them smaller and less generous as well as less of themselves.
The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life.
No matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.
Heartbreak is unpreventable; the natural outcome of caring for people and things over which we have no control.
Heartbreak begins the moment in which we are asked to let go; but, we cannot. In other words, it colors and inhabits and magnifies each and every day. Heartbreak is not a visitation, but a path that human beings follow through even the most average life. It is an indication of our sincerity: in a love relationship, in a life’s work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is an essence and emblem of care.
Heartbreak has its own way of inhabiting time and its own beautiful and trying patience in coming and going.
Heartbreak is how we mature; yet, we use the word heartbreak as if it only occurs when things have gone wrong, such as an unrequited love or a shattered dream. But heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way."
Petrichor.
"A mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness; friendship not only helps us in seeing ourselves through another one's eyes; but, it can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in reciprocation. A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight; operating as a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion that we do not need them. An undercurrent of real friendship is a blessing exactly because its elemental form is rediscovered again and again through understanding and mercy. All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy, all friendships die.
In the course of the years a close friendship will always reveal the shadow in the other as much as ourselves. To remain friends, one must know the other and their difficulties and even their sins and encourage the best in them, not through critique but through addressing the better part of them, the leading creative edge of their incarnation; thus, subtly discouraging what makes them smaller and less generous as well as less of themselves.
The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life.
No matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.
Heartbreak is unpreventable; the natural outcome of caring for people and things over which we have no control.
Heartbreak begins the moment in which we are asked to let go; but, we cannot. In other words, it colors and inhabits and magnifies each and every day. Heartbreak is not a visitation, but a path that human beings follow through even the most average life. It is an indication of our sincerity: in a love relationship, in a life’s work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is an essence and emblem of care.
Heartbreak has its own way of inhabiting time and its own beautiful and trying patience in coming and going.
Heartbreak is how we mature; yet, we use the word heartbreak as if it only occurs when things have gone wrong, such as an unrequited love or a shattered dream. But heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way."