Be Kind, Healing Takes Time

We need to be patient with ourselves

Self-care, image by Willow Wallis

“Be kind to everyone you meet, everyone is going through some sort of crisis.”

Ian Maclaren, Scottish Minister and author who died in 1907

This saying is a great lens to view all those we come into contact with these days — masked and virtually.

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Much like the Bene Gesserit litany of fear from “Dune,” by Frank Herbert,

“I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.”

I have heard this saying in my head for as long as I can recall. It’s often one of the last things that has kept me from figuratively leaping off the edge.

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“Short cuts make delays,” Frodo Baggins.

There are no short cuts, the only way around something is straight through the middle.