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I do not want to be so afraid anymore.
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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 690706" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Each of those feeling states Copa, would be defenses. The question for us <em>if we feel there would be value in pursuing it</em> is to determine whose voice is speaking. There will be a negative tape running. Something so familiar to us that it feels like it is us.</p><p></p><p>It is not.</p><p></p><p>That is what the phrase "Without expectation" means. I think this is what it means. </p><p></p><p>If seeing ourselves in these ways were not something very human, phrases like this one would not exist. The phrase would not resonate as it does.</p><p></p><p>To accept ourselves without expectation would be to be free. Imagine what that would be, to utterly accept ourselves, without filters or defense. The wonder in that phrase for me is that if we can conceive of such a reality, we can expect and encourage and bring it real for ourselves.</p><p></p><p>There will be so many people in the world who will never have had to negate their own self images. Those of us committed to redefining ourselves are fortunate that we can negate ours.</p><p></p><p>Fortunate to the point of being well and truly blessed, Copa.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 690706, member: 17461"] Each of those feeling states Copa, would be defenses. The question for us [I]if we feel there would be value in pursuing it[/I] is to determine whose voice is speaking. There will be a negative tape running. Something so familiar to us that it feels like it is us. It is not. That is what the phrase "Without expectation" means. I think this is what it means. If seeing ourselves in these ways were not something very human, phrases like this one would not exist. The phrase would not resonate as it does. To accept ourselves without expectation would be to be free. Imagine what that would be, to utterly accept ourselves, without filters or defense. The wonder in that phrase for me is that if we can conceive of such a reality, we can expect and encourage and bring it real for ourselves. There will be so many people in the world who will never have had to negate their own self images. Those of us committed to redefining ourselves are fortunate that we can negate ours. Fortunate to the point of being well and truly blessed, Copa. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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