Oriah Mountain Dreamer is a Canadian poet, storyteller, and spiritual teacher facilitating personal growth and self-inquiry, most famous for her prose poem “The Invitation.”
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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people’s problems as our own.
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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