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armchairlinguist
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 Posted - 10/19/2007 : 23:01:34
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"At some point in our lives, our own experiences affect us in ways that run counter to our habitual expectations and assumptions, and it is at that point that we either construct even larger delusions, or we give up and say yes, this is me, this is what happened to me, this is how I feel. It is at these moments that we have to encounter difficulty not as something to be cured but in a more elemental sense as simply the way it is.
This is a good thing. We stop trying to stamp out this reality, this knowledge of what happened, this feeling of loss, this unbalance, this void. We stop trying to make this thing tiny or kill it off. Instead we expand so we can carry it. When we do this we actually expand our capacity for experience."
--Cary Tennis, http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/18/stolen_laptop/ (requires ad view to read article, sorry)
I feel this is a beautiful short summary of what the deeper 'emotional work' is all about.
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mamaboulet
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Posted - 10/20/2007 : 05:52:46
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| Thank you. I suspect that, at any given moment, most of us are operating under a pile of expectations and assumptions, many of which we aren't even aware of. Those moments of cognitive-emotional dissonance are rare opportunities to see the pile and do something about it. |
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What is vs. what our expectations are
