Sensitivity

We live in a generally insensitive world.

To cope with insensitivity, you desensitise yourself. Then you become insensitive too. You forget and, in doing this, you cut yourself off from a wealth of experiences. You deny your feelings if they don’t fit in; or if they are inconvenient for yourself or other people. For fear of attack, you hide your sensitivity, which is also your vulnerability, because you haven’t learned how to protect it, how to put boundaries around it.

In doing this you become aloof, with false pride, a mask of invulnerability and coping. You find many masks to hide behind. But these masks are a lie. They are not who you truly are. You are depriving yourself of a wealth of genuine and authentic soul experience.

It is only when you allow yourself to be vulnerable, with honesty, that you can regain and reclaim your sensitivity, which allows you to experience life fully, for good or bad, or both – and to be real.