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BlueRaincoat
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 Posted - Mar 05 2015 : 2:57:12 PM
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“How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
So you mustn’t be frightened, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.”
Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet |
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jusmail
India
491 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2015 : 9:52:59 PM
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| Thought provoking, Thanks |
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Bodhi Tree
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Posted - Mar 05 2015 : 10:20:03 PM
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Very nice. Wholeness.  |
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SeySorciere
Seychelles
1532 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2015 : 12:42:53 AM
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Yes, we need to accept that we fear, that we are sad - those too are experiences - and there is no need to skirt away from these emotions. Life willknock the stuffing out of you and let you fall flat on your face. Accept that. And know that it too shall pass. 
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Charliedog
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Posted - Mar 06 2015 : 03:58:03 AM
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Embracing all experiences....with love  thats all we have to do in life
Thank you BlueRaincoat |
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Dogboy
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Posted - Mar 06 2015 : 07:12:00 AM
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Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Never thought of it this way, thanks Blue! |
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Embracing all experiences
