![]() ![]() ![]() Pádraig talked about the power of language and of story and how reconciliation and healing can happen when we tell our stories again, leaving space to hear something new in them. This eventually gave him the courage to leave the places where he wasn’t safe and didn’t belong and released him to live more fully “with integrity as a loving presence in the world.” When Pádraig was twenty-five years old, a dream, a sermon, and a National Geographic article led him to enter the very cave he was afraid of and find himself and God there. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded becomes the centre.– Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces. ![]() The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. ![]() When you stumble, there lies your treasure. To turn from everything to one face is to find one’s self face to face with everything. In his talk “In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World,” he begins with this quote. The next day, I listened to Pádraig Ó Tuama. It requires staying with yourself and the other person when everything in you wants to flee. Receptive presence requires three things: intention, inner listening, and opening to another. What came up for me as I listened to Tara is how beautifully and easily a receptive presence can turn an experience of irritation and displeasure into an opportunity for love and transformation. Before I had a chance to listen to it, this short video from Tara Brach landed in my inbox. Last week’s Love Mischief led me to a talk by Pádraig Ó Tuama. ![]()
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