Rumi the poet says “As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror becomes clearer and cleaner”.
It took me many hours of pondering this quote to figure out what it means to me.
What I have discovered is, the more I dig into my childhood wounds and clear them, the easier it is becoming to see what is my issue, or someone else’s.
I think this is what Rumi was referring to.
For most of my life, I took everything so personally that I was one big walking open wound.
People scared me, because I was so susceptible to being hurt by them.
Most of the time now, I can see, even when under attack by someone else, whether I have done something which warrants their attack on me (and I have pretty much decided nothing we do ever warrants an attack) or whether the attack is a product of the other persons childhood wounds they haven’t cleared yet.
This is a beautiful space to be in.
When you don’t take things so personally, it becomes so much easier to love people when they are hurting, even if their hurts are showing up as an attack against you.
It takes some work. Some unbecoming of the person you are. A whole bunch of truth telling, and self discovery. But I am here as proof that it is so worth it. As you grow into your new more authentic self, you spread love instead of fear. And you begin walking the path to heaven on earth with a sparkly clean and clear mirror.