Being sensitive AND strong

This world calls us to EITHER and to OR
but through neither of these alone will you soar
only by BOTH together with AND
does anyone truly and rightly stand.

The mastery of wisdom is held in the balance, in managing tensions, enabling opposites to coexist.

What are these opposites?  Truth with love are but one example.  I’ll give you another — it’s going to amount to the best YOU ever.

It’s easy to be sensitive, to bow to others to give them their way.
It’s easy to be strong, to lord it over others and have your say.
But what’s better is to say what we need AND to hold space open for others, too.

There are many environments where being strong is rewarded.  These environments we might trounced for being sensitive.  There are certainly moments when we need to be strong and to minimise our sensitivities.

There are also many environments where being sensitive is crucial.  Where to be anything else would only create harm.  These environments we might do the trouncing if we displayed our strength.  There are moments when sensitivity is THE strength.

To be able to modulate between sensitivity and strength is a commanding grasp of wisdom in discerning and applying love in the context of truth and truth in the context of love.

The strongest strength is sensitivity in the moment where sensitivity is being challenged.  The most sensitive sensitivity is being strong in the moment of collapsing weakness and prolonged despair.

If we were to give one gift to this world it would be the strength of our sensitivity in the very moment when the polarising weakness is nobody is brave enough to be sensitive.  Just the opposite could be said; the sensitivity of our strength is hope for anyone and everyone when vulnerability alone leaves open the doorway to attack.

We need to be both people of sensitivity and people of strength, knowing the right proportions for the given moment, always being sensitive enough and strong enough in more or less equal proportions depending on the moment’s needs.

We need to be strong for others and sensitive to ourselves, just as we need to be sensitive of others and strong for ourselves.  Whenever our strength and sensitivity are available for the service of others, the modulation of both will be in more or less correct proportions, so long as our discernment is on target.

The mature human being has an AND/BOTH commitment to being sensitive and strong, always acknowledging that both are needed in every given life situation.

A woman’s strength adds something beautiful and necessary when it’s added to her sensitivity.  A man’s sensitivity adds God’s poise to the man’s strength.

If we can’t be sensitive, then we shouldn’t be strong.  For those who are sensitive, being strong isn’t wrong.

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