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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 642790" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I must not be as far along in my healing process as you are, MWM. I am still so surprised by that sense of freedom that comes with changing perspective! I don't know quite what to make of it. I have always "made room." Inappropriate behavior was something to be understood and forgiven in the expectation that everyone would take the high road and all would be well in the end. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Boy, is that not true.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I don't even know whether I was taking the high road, anymore.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Maybe I just couldn't face losing what little I had.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Isn't there something in the Bible about that? Something like "...and what about the guy who has only a little whatever it is?" And the answer is: "He shall lose all that he has."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">And when we do?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">We are free.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">So, I'm still a little giddy around the whole prospect. Every loss is a win. Soon now, everything that told me who I was, what I could expect, what I deserved, how far or how high or how low I could go ~ that will all be gone.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">And I will be empty. No expectations, no guilt; fully present. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">:O)</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Cedar</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Isn't there a Buddhist concept of the empty bowl? And something about the sound made when a particular tool is used to make it ring?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I see that bowl, flashing in the sun...but I don't hear it, yet.</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 642790, member: 17461"] [FONT=Verdana]I must not be as far along in my healing process as you are, MWM. I am still so surprised by that sense of freedom that comes with changing perspective! I don't know quite what to make of it. I have always "made room." Inappropriate behavior was something to be understood and forgiven in the expectation that everyone would take the high road and all would be well in the end. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Boy, is that not true.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I don't even know whether I was taking the high road, anymore.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Maybe I just couldn't face losing what little I had.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Isn't there something in the Bible about that? Something like "...and what about the guy who has only a little whatever it is?" And the answer is: "He shall lose all that he has."[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]And when we do?[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]We are free.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]So, I'm still a little giddy around the whole prospect. Every loss is a win. Soon now, everything that told me who I was, what I could expect, what I deserved, how far or how high or how low I could go ~ that will all be gone.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]And I will be empty. No expectations, no guilt; fully present. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]:O)[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Cedar[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Isn't there a Buddhist concept of the empty bowl? And something about the sound made when a particular tool is used to make it ring?[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I see that bowl, flashing in the sun...but I don't hear it, yet.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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