vulnerability, pain and uncertainty

[duskfrog]

"When an old culture is dying, the new is created by a few people who are
not afraid to be insecure."
- Rudolf Bahro

"You can think of the groundlessness and openness of insecurity as a
chance that we're given over and over to choose a fresh alternative.
Things happen to us all the time that open up the space. This
spaciousness, this wide-open, unbiased, unprejudiced space is
inexpressible and fundamentally good and sound. It's like the sky."

- Pema Chodron, *Practicing Peace in Times of War*

Yes.

It takes infinitely more courage to choose vulnerability over control.
It takes much more inner strength to feel hurt than it does to feel angry.
It is more graceful to be uncertain and flexible than it is to be sure and rigid.

I choose courage, strength and grace.