| Subject: Re: The Inability to Receive |
Author:
Art
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Date Posted: 22:28:00 07/25/01 Wed
In reply to:
Marc
's message, "Re: The Inability to Receive" on 08:32:23 07/25/01 Wed
Marc,
I've had a lonnnnnnnnnnnng day so whatever the following
turns out to be may not be as gentle or sensitive as one
or more, if any, of my previous posts. I apologize in advance.
Thanks,
Art
>Art, thank you for your consideration and suggestions.
>And I don't find anything silly about gazing with Ted's
>photo.
Let us all know some/all of what you get/happens.
>What I have uncovered already is that my tendencies don't
>go the way of the mutualite.
My tendencies don't go the way of down.
But down is allowing me more, or I am allowing down more.
I have no draw toward mutualite, but no resistance to it
either.
So go into sales already. I worked as a salesman. It's
WEIRD. No one >>sells<< anything crummy, but people buy
crummy things anyway. You have to convince yourself what
you ARE selling is really, really good. And then you can
steer people that don't already know what they 'must' have
away from crummy stuff and into the really, really good
stuff.
And, as Saniel says, always holding the possibility
of utterly wrong: Let us be humble enough and intelligent
enough to recognize the new and more encompassing tune.
Like a true believer salesman of the Firestone ATX.
You really need to have a good sense that we're all just
human beings here. You need to like people, and oh lordy
are we diverse.
Here, on this forum, once removed as the typer of letters,
we all now seem to be dipping m/y/our toe(s) into the
water/fire of mutual human sharing.
You are daring!
>Up and down I do readily, but the real burn for me is
>dealing with people, especially groups. On one level this
>"inability" to receive is a mechanism that allows me to
>jump to a quick, often negative, conclusion about my
>relationship to another and theirs with me. That conclusion
>then becomes the "reason" to disengage from them.
Sounds like governing sentimentalities, or, in Sanskrit,
vasanas.
>Much of the burn for me involves just staying in the room,
>staying present. I can't tell you how many times since I've
>entered this room I've felt the impulse to run out of here, >never to return.
That was my first response to the transmission of Holly
Springfield: Look at how tight I'm holding the shield
around my pain => Art feels like splitting like the
roadrunner, leaving only little round swirly clouds of
dust, from Holly's here, on the horizon of the distant
mountains.
But that wouldn't be being honest with m/y/our/self.
So here we are. We persist and endure.
I'm still here, though.
As am I.
And (if not exactly) we both sense/know why.
What else is there....another usual roadside distraction.
That hope is long gone, over.
WE ARE, JUST HERE.
Love. . . .
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