Comm-Unity
I had a beautiful conversation with my friend Bex Urban today, to be shared in the podcast in a few weeks. We discussed community and compassion, and how they relate to others and self. As always, she was able to articulate this in a way only she knows how, connecting dots from buddhism, anatomy and daily life.
How we commune with self, how we are compassionate to self… I’ll save her words for the episode, but my main takeaways from our exchange were:
“Community” aren’t necessarily the people around you, or where you live. It’s who and what you connect with, and can include yourself, trees, dogs, and even silence.
Caring for self is caring for all. It begins with gratitude for our physicality, and the internal universe which keeps us alive.
Rever your organs: Heart, liver, lungs… They’re the heroes of the story.
If you’re not having fun with it, don’t do it.
Keep your self-care fluid, it’s a space to inhabit rather than a set of rules to live by.
To commune: To converse or talk together, usually with profound intensity, intimacy, etc.; interchange thoughts or feelings.
Unity: The state or fact of being united or combined into one, as of the parts of a whole; unification. absence of diversity; unvaried or uniform character. oneness of mind, feeling, etc., as among a number of persons; concord, harmony, or agreement.
Passion: A strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything
COMM-UNITY
COM-PASSION
I’ll ruminate as days go by.
Paola