The Power of Vulnerability

We are most powerful when we are most vulnerable. This may seem a paradox in the same way a heart that is the deepest and most whole is one that is broken. It is only in our vulnerability that we recognize we are capable of withstanding more than we thought, where we discover hidden resources of strength. 

Without vulnerability we cannot connect to the part of ourselves that is powerful and more true than any external voice. It is only in our vulnerability that we can find what we truly desire and use it as a compass—our guide in the realm of Eros. 

When we are completely vulnerable we do not have to run to or from anything. We are beyond defending, protecting, justifying, judging, or competing. We realize there is no enemy. Nothing can touch us in a way that is not beautiful and true. And there is only one taste—the taste of freedom, liberation. 

The drop into the open, broken, receptive, honest, naked vulnerability is only two feet— from up in our heads down into our hearts.