via Glimpse @ Rigpa
July 18
Don’t
we know, only too well, that protection from pain doesn’t work, and
that when we try to defend ourselves from suffering, we only suffer
more and don’t learn what we can from the experience? As Rilke wrote,
the protected heart that is “never exposed to loss, innocent and
secure, cannot know tenderness; only the won-back heart can ever be
satisfied: free, through all it has given up, to rejoice in its
mastery.”