Meditation

[Steppingfeet]

I have spoken with various family members occasionally about our situations as well as my own. While talking helps to a degree, I have understood that many of our problems won't have very fortunate answers, but answers with some light, nonetheless.

I'm generally not one to seek out the advice of others when it comes to internal issues of emotion, perception, pain, etc. Not that others don't have awesome counsel to give, just that I feel that there's little that others can often do.

*But*, I do find sometimes that just being able to speak my issue, and have it be heard with an empathetic ear and compassionate eyes, is in and of itself a means of lightening the load, without need for a particular solution or course of action. I've literally felt lighter subsequent to these types of moments.

That's where I was coming from. Naturally, only you can know when speaking distortions are appropriate.

One of the people that I've known who has not become a "better" person through suffering is one that I regret inevitably having known daily...simply because that person has pressed on too much in the "wrong" direction, which she believed to be "right".

This note reminds me of the following Ra quote:

34.6 Very often the catalyst for emotional pain, whether it be the death of the physical complex of one other-self which is loved or some other seeming loss, will simply result in the opposite, in a bitterness, an impatience, a souring. This is catalyst which has gone awry. In these cases, then, there will be additional catalyst provided to offer the unmanifested self further opportunities for discovering the self as all-sufficient Creator containing all that there is and full of joy.

Not to say that that thought from Ra describes the situation with regard to your friend, just reminds me of it.

Prayers to you. I hope you have a great good visit with your brother.

GLB