March 2012
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I no longer have to pretend.
"I learned to survive by withholding what feels real. When events happen – when someone says or does something that hurts me – I have learned to absorb the hit and pretend that nothing changed, that everything is the same.… Continue reading
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They are my heroes
In the paper yesterday two young girls spoke up about their abuse…and their abusers are now in the court system. While many may focus on what kind of punishment the men will get, I see this from how it affects… Continue reading
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If you don’t know…
I heard Wayne Dyer speak of what we know, and the comparrison to what we don't know and yet how we live in the small place believing only in what we know. As I heard him talk about moving out… Continue reading
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What Love means to Me.
Mothering adult children has been a perplexing inner dilemma…of what to do and when, and when to hold on and when to let go. Letting go doesn't mean I don't care. Letting go means I care enough to let them… Continue reading
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Someone is your Jailer.
I watched myself in a conversation yesterday, where a person was explaining to me why she was going to fight a choice that another person had chosen. How she didn't want what was…and was seeking to prevent it. As we… Continue reading
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Feelings feel felt.
"The fastest way to freedom is to feel your feelings." Gita Bellin "This sounds pretty simple, but though it's easy to know you have feelings, easy to know their weight and agitation and suddenness of mood, it is another, more… Continue reading
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Unexpressed fear.
Mothering for certain is where my greatest weaknesses lie, where all my scars seem to congregate and wait for one child to push a button, and all of the unexpressed emotions come charging forward, ready to spill from my mouth.… Continue reading
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Free will is outside of the Program.
"The structure of the human mind has been likened to a computer in that the mind's basic structure is akin to the hardware and its content to the software. The mind has limited control over the content of the programming;… Continue reading
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Be a Surprise
"I know that over the years, through fear and expectation, my mind has gathered and hoarded places I needed to go, things I needed to have, selves I needed to be. But here I am, without most of them –… Continue reading
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In Control Within the Flow
Today's reading, March 21,in the Book of Awakening, by Mark Nepo "To Harbor and Release" I love this one. "Often the pain of resisting makes us rust like iron, and in order to re-enter the flow of life, we need to… Continue reading