Vessel Collection - Filling Your Vessel - Reflection & Contemplation a voice note from my phone

Filling Your Vessel - (Detachment / Armour / Vessels)

The more you become,

the more you fill your vessel

with the world —

with worldly things,

with what your friends tell you,

your family tells you,

the world tells you.

Your heart becomes armour plated.

You think the more you fill your vessel,

the more you shine your armour —

but the thing that always gets me

is this:

the people you love the most

know how to shoot straight through that armour.

Therapists are said to be vessels —

vessels filled with our stories:

our inner child,

our inappropriate adult,

our journey.

We fill these vessels.

But if they become

everyone’s vessel —

to empty,

to fill,

to contain,

to hold —

do they become

just empty bottles,

warriors who fill with our words

and help keep the lid on?

How can anyone

be an infinite container to fill?

I wonder about this.

I ask the question:

Does your heart become armour plated

to stay untarnished

by what affects you —

or is it like a tortoise shell,

with a part that will always

be able to be pierced,

impaled,

intruded?

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