Opening

Opening up is at once exciting and terrifying because we don't know what that opening will allow in. And opening, if it is done without desire, has a delicious and irresistible natural draw to it – it attracts. An unconditional welcoming opening space is always soft: seduces and softens as it receives. Yielding is taking whatever comes, and what's more, being grateful for whatever comes. The gratitude is just an expression of my belief in life: that everything has meaning and significance, certainly beyond the satisfaction of my desires, and that everything is in its rightful place. Everything that enters my opening space poises me more delicately and more precariously on the brink of being – the lip of life – excites the spirit and rends the heart. Opening means a breaking heart. This is why it's so damn difficult.