The desire to help others comes naturally.
When we are connected to our tribe in a loving way, we want to see everyone do well.
Where we get in trouble is when we try to protect people from their own path.
We cannot stop someone else from making their own choices.
We cannot keep people from the consequences of their own actions.
And we certainly cannot prevent people from feeling their own emotions.
Indeed, the more we judge someone else’s path, the more trouble we cause for ourselves.
The more we resist what is, and how others are, the more we suffer.
Our judgments cause ourselves pain.
Our opinions on how someone else’s life is unfolding only keeps us from being present with them.
We may not agree with their choices.
We do not have to accept their actions as ones we would take in their shoes.
Yet the more we honor their own decisions, the more we honor ourselves.
The more we accept life as it is, the more we can be at peace.
We cannot control the entire universe.
We cannot control even one other person’s path.
We can only live our own life and accept how others have chosen to live theirs.
We don’t have to agree with it.
Yet, if we live as an example of how others can live, perhaps one day they will notice.
Perhaps one day they will ask for our help and be open to receive it.
Before that time comes, there is no opening for us.
It is only by honoring a person’s path that we come to understand our own path more clearly.
~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant
