08/13/2022
BOTH KIND AND FIERCE
We can be ruthlessly compassionate AND ruthlessly honest at the same time.
We can be kind and fierce, empathic and brutally honest and true at the same time. Fire and water are not polar opposites, they are lovers. The masculine and feminine are one.
We can be deeply at peace AND fight for what we believe in.
We can know ourselves as the Absolute AND fight for our dignity, our truth, our rights, speak up for our needs, our pain, our longings, on a relative human level, and there is no contradiction there.
From a place of clarity, and peace, and deep groundedness in the earth and the body and the heart, we can speak up loudly, fiercely, share our deepest truths, ask for what we want, set clear boundaries, say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no.
From a place of deep inner kindness, we can share our healthy anger, stand up for our values, call out the false and the unkind and the unconscious, fearlessly or with fear call all the âpain bodiesâ out of hiding and into the light of consciousness.
We can be both kind and fierce, and others may feel uncomfortable and threatened by our truth. We can shake their status quo, question the foundations of things.
In their pain others may judge us, call us selfish, try to suppress us, gaslight and dismiss us and minimise our truth and thatâs so damn okay because we are on the side of Integrity and Love and Beauty and Dignity, and we cannot be stopped now. We conquer death by living as love, soft and fierce.
- Jeff Foster
