Tears

 Sometimes the soul needs a shower.  This can be our tears.  We can cry with joy or with sadness.  Tears for both.  Shower for the heart.  Crying is often put down as weakness or self-pity or just an embarrassing nuisance.  But if you are trying to be loving, or at least a bit kind to others, it is not selfishness.  The tears of grief in a loss, water the heart which thirsts in its experience of loss.  “Toughen up” is not quite what is needed.  It is the advice of those who are in denial.  Sometimes there are tears in meditation.  They are to help us move through events, some we do not even recognize.  Let it flow.  Let it flow.