I've been reading the book "A Spring Within Us" by Richard Rohr. His writings parallel this poem and the points made here. I love Richard's emphasis on non-binary thinking and growing out of our self-built image into something greater, someone who is loved. To do this we have to grieve the comfortable place we create in ourselves and this usually can't happen until we experience some great loss. But in the grieving we learn something about ourselves and our place in it.
I've been reading the book "A Spring Within Us" by Richard Rohr. His writings parallel this poem and the points made here. I love Richard's emphasis on non-binary thinking and growing out of our self-built image into something greater, someone who is loved. To do this we have to grieve the comfortable place we create in ourselves and this usually can't happen until we experience some great loss. But in the grieving we learn something about ourselves and our place in it.