Joe Hudson

So love is abuse.

My needs are less important than other people's needs, and there's just something inherently wrong with me.

Meditation is porn for perfectionists.

It was just me trying to be perfect.

I was at peace, but I realized that peace was great, but it wasn't the complete picture, and I wanted to actually be fully human.

Is there anything that you pick up with me?

There's a lot of things that I could say.

I could give you 20 examples.

So the more I could allow my heart to break, the more my capacity to love grew.

But then what happens when someone's actually across from you and loving you just as you are?

We all want to be so seen.

I think there's a couple ways to try to describe it.

The first one is I think peace comes with the head awakening, right?

Which is, I would describe it as understanding like what you are essentially.

Understanding, you know, what you are beyond the things that come and go, like emotions or thoughts or identities or, you know, father, son, all that stuff.

Like what are you essentially?

And it also comes with this thing of being able to see through your thoughts.

Like your thoughts come and go and you're just like, oh, I see how that's true, but I also see how it's not true.

You don't get, your thoughts don't become personal anymore.

The joy comes more in the heart awakening, which is the capacity to welcome and enjoy all of your emotional experiences.