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Recieved: 2003/01/25 05:05
Subject: Re: [k-list] Helping others... A drop in the pool
From: Rita Metermaid
On 2003/01/25 05:05, Rita Metermaid posted thus to the K-list:
Dear Rich -
:-)
--- Rich <ulterium AT_NOSPAM barrysworld.com> wrote:
> This has been an enjoyable thread.
>
> The only comment I can make is to follow the heart
> voice, whether in dual or
> non-dual space.
Oh yes! It has to be heart-based, always. Listen to
your heart, and notice that the more love you feel for
yourself, the more you have to share with others, and
the more love you share - the more you have. What was
it that Lenon McCartney said? "And in the end, the
love you take is equal to the love you make."
[snip]
> We should
> remember this and for many things we are moved to a
> place to break out of
> our own inner attachments. That's where greater
> bliss, freedom and peace may
> be found.
>
> I was talking recently to someone about needing
> someone in my life and could
> not decide about her, as in one way it felt very
> right but at the other end
> it was causing me a lot of struggle as my own ideas
> about how I should be
> treated were being pushed to the limits. She
> reflected me great in many ways
> and I've benefited from that even if I cursed her
> and the situations in
> times previous. There's a gem of growth in every
> struggle.
That's so important to recognize - the lessons in our
struggles and pain. She must be lucky to know someone
like you, who has the sense to go with what Goddess'
plan is, and who can let go of attachments and ride
out the storms.
> To throw in another comment, it's easy to use heated
> language or terms to
> draw people's emotional investment into an idea. I
> did it myself when I used
> the word rape in a poem sometime ago. One of the
> meanings is to seize or
> take away by force, which fitted very well. I knew
> it was a charged word for
> some but like art, there are different ways of
> looking at things. It wasn't
> meant to be offensive. Just to see things another
> way.
Well, speaking only for myself, I wasn't offended, but
it was a powerful, graphic image. It seemed like a
metaphore or artistic license. I think if a woman had
written that poem, it might have seemed a lot more
literal? I am a rape survivor, myself, so it's a
little emotionally charged if I think about it in a
very literal sebse. But anyway, I wasn't offended - I
don't knwo about anyone else.
>
> Okay enough, back to my cave....
>
>
> Rich
love to all on the reinvogorated K-list,
rita
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