vulnerability

When I'm triggered, I think, "This will last forever" or "What if this lasts forever?" I get thoughts about how I should give up, run away, hide, protect myself. These thoughts, I cannot change. What I can change is how I respond to them. Will I unconditionally believe these ideas, or will I accept them as side effects of the temporary experience of pain? Will I act on each thought that arises in the burning fire, or will I hold myself gently and say, "It'll be okay. I know it hurts. I love you"? My power lies in these choices.

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes.And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

Learn to observe your emotions without needing to act or distract yourself from them. Within that stillness your truest most vulnerable thoughts will arise and it is these thoughts that will show you where your healing work must begin.

Dare to be vulnerable, walk outside without your armor on and say YES to your heart.

All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.

I believe that when you step into uncharted territory, you are also stepping into total abandonment, potential humiliation, and a space where nothing is guaranteed; there__ no case study or roadmap. I have so much respect for anybody who will step away from what they can do in order to find what they must do. That__ a hallmark characteristic of entrepreneurs and artists. And it__ scary and exciting as all hell.

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

Inside that Colonel, there's a private that needs to be cuddled and held just like the rest of us." Hawkeye

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.

Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love - your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.' - Jocelyn

The sky's gray and there's mizzle. It's so soft on my skin--it's nothing like rain. It's even softer than the lightest drizzle! Lift my face up, so it can kiss my skin." The Panopticon

I'm changing and I'm terrified of how weak I feel, how vulnerable my flesh and soul has become because of this girl.