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Vy's avatar

love this so much. I think part of healing is realizing realizing that it never ends and its learning how to approach life differently

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Jamie Morris's avatar

Wow. This is so nuanced and wise!

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Xuan Vu's avatar

Thrilled to have received this gift of some more of your infinite wisdom this week. I felt this line in my bones: "Until you realize that self-protection can also be a kind of exile". Also, "Maybe the lesson isn’t to stop walking down familiar streets, but to walk them differently. It turns out there are no streets without manholes. There never were." Yours is not just beautiful prose, but truly deep, philosophical insights channeled from the divine. Thank you for continuing to connect us w/ Source _()_

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Damon Mitchell's avatar

"Haven’t I done this work already?"

This is the most painful and avoidable source of suffering for me, the illusion of ignorance matriculation. As if once was ever enough with anything worth doing, even falling.

(Smiled seeing your name, Maureen.)

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Maureen Elyse Gilbert's avatar

Thanks Damon! So is the solution to embrace my inner ignoramus 😂

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Jane Fisher's avatar

I don't know why I read the comments (I usually don't) and I don't know why I was impelled to look up "ignoramus", but when I did, I found out it is from Latin, meaning "we do not know"(specifically a jury finding that evidence was insufficient).

. So maybe, yes,-especially when contemplating the future-we should all embrace our inner ignorami.

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Damon Mitchell's avatar

Oh like I know anything. 😆

Maybe just start with tolerating it? It’s a state up from disliking or worse, hating.

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