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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 690110" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>For me, it was intention, and the holding space open for possibility. Typically we presume based upon all of the negative experiences that have happened before. In Pigless' case she had a family history of generations that would have justified her preconceived certainty of what would happen. That the same thing will happen. </p><p></p><p>Of course, pigless thought it might, but she decided to go, open to a different outcome. Even if it was unlikely. To suspend emotions and thoughts like judgment, anger...because she and her children deserve better. Even if there is disappointment. She decided she would support herself and her children to hold faith. Or is it stillness?</p><p></p><p>Imagine your mother, Cedar, or my sister, in this situation.</p><p> I think you are talking about love here--because what else really could fuel such an act. Love in its sense as devotion--loyalty, and <em>faith</em>.</p><p>She did. Imagine how many miracles we miss in the course of a day or a year. Because we have failed ourselves--by pre-judging. Pre-judging not others, but ourselves, that we are too small or damaged or hurt--to believe in the possibility of the best.</p><p></p><p>The miracle of father-in-law had occurred already. But pigless and her children could have missed it. By not going. By going with closed minds. By deciding to judge rather than open up.</p><p></p><p>The same thing is true for father in law. Having lost everything--he had nothing to lose. Whether it was his helplessness or whatever--he opened up. And flowered. After generations upon generations of misery, as if programmed in his genes. All he did was. Stopped.</p><p></p><p>The knowing is that there are miracles all over, that by being open, we can receive. But we close ourselves off, with all kinds of explanations, and rationales. Personality disorders. Sociopathy. Look at politics.</p><p>Yes. This is it.</p><p></p><p>Think about it. The miracles are already there. It is choosing to let them in. Like father in law did. After a lifetime. I think it is about love.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 690110, member: 18958"] For me, it was intention, and the holding space open for possibility. Typically we presume based upon all of the negative experiences that have happened before. In Pigless' case she had a family history of generations that would have justified her preconceived certainty of what would happen. That the same thing will happen. Of course, pigless thought it might, but she decided to go, open to a different outcome. Even if it was unlikely. To suspend emotions and thoughts like judgment, anger...because she and her children deserve better. Even if there is disappointment. She decided she would support herself and her children to hold faith. Or is it stillness? Imagine your mother, Cedar, or my sister, in this situation. I think you are talking about love here--because what else really could fuel such an act. Love in its sense as devotion--loyalty, and [I]faith[/I]. She did. Imagine how many miracles we miss in the course of a day or a year. Because we have failed ourselves--by pre-judging. Pre-judging not others, but ourselves, that we are too small or damaged or hurt--to believe in the possibility of the best. The miracle of father-in-law had occurred already. But pigless and her children could have missed it. By not going. By going with closed minds. By deciding to judge rather than open up. The same thing is true for father in law. Having lost everything--he had nothing to lose. Whether it was his helplessness or whatever--he opened up. And flowered. After generations upon generations of misery, as if programmed in his genes. All he did was. Stopped. The knowing is that there are miracles all over, that by being open, we can receive. But we close ourselves off, with all kinds of explanations, and rationales. Personality disorders. Sociopathy. Look at politics. Yes. This is it. Think about it. The miracles are already there. It is choosing to let them in. Like father in law did. After a lifetime. I think it is about love. [/QUOTE]
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