The fiercest love is soft, like a drop of water consistently carving away the earth until it creates the Grand Canyon.
I’ve been holding a lot of space & feeling compassion for a lot of clients and people in my life lately. Yet today there was a moment where I met my partner with “tough love” instead of compassion & gentleness. Although my intentions were pure it didn’t feel good to run that energy or see the way it affected him. In my meditation I contemplated why it is that so many people not as close to me receive so much of my compassion yet my most beloved can sometimes receive my impatience. It led me to contemplate if that’s the way I meet myself sometimes since we are the most merged. In deeper contemplation I saw that I justified this as an act of tough love & needed discipline. Yet when I feel into it, I don’t actually believe in tough love. I beleive in fierce love & fierce love has the strength & compassion to be gentle.
So my new practice is allowing my love to be so fierce, so strong, that it has the strength to be gentle.