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What Gets in the Way
Adapted from Facing the Lion, Being the Lion, by Mark Nepo (Conari Press, 2007).
If chickens don’t get enough light, they start pecking at each other. The truth is that humans are no different. Profoundly, it’s not the free range of our thinking and the depth of our feelings that are dangerous, but that our minds and hearts are often incubated in the dark. How can we hold each other more fully in the light?
Once the pecking begins, we are called to three forms of work: stop the pecking, heal the wounds, and seek out more light.
It is true as it is old: feed the inner hunger and the outer hunger will dissipate. Ignore the inner hunger and nothing in the world will satisfy you. When you catch yourself pecking, look for more light. When you find yourself darkened by pain, wait until you can see. When life seems to flood you, put down your mask. When feeling cut off and depressed, look for work that is whole. And when feeling you will die if a particular hunger is not fed, let that part of you die. Get out of your own way.
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add your comment »this collection of ideas you speak of Doug. Aren't they your inner self trying to break free. to be part of your every day existence. you do not acknowledge them? We all do that you know we hide. especially when we have been hurt. It is more convenient and less intrusive. No one finds us/ the real you kept in sie .oly being allowed on on brief momments when someone reminds of of that inner self. Hurt does that you know. Doug Wilson what do you think.
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This has already enlightened a day that started painfully . I wish to share these thoughts .
I agree with you Doug , about sneaky ideas that take the face of reason just because they call themselves " ideas" and are unfortunately " king" in this materialistic stifling world .
How they can despotically torture us .
We need to feel the light, in all its shade , but awaken ever more sensitively to it , it's the breath of the universe.
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Wow, nice comments on the material from Doug and Jane....wanna be my friend? hee hee. I heard a great quote recently...if only my memory worked better I could share it with you. Something about not being blinded by our UNDERSTANDING . The power of growing comfortable in the dark & taking the next intuitive step toward where we are drawn. The light is fantastic and the dark is as well. Something that may be worth remembering at this time of year.
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Healing the wounds takes time, but you can always put yourself in the light within a shorter time frame, whether that be as simple as holding your face to the sun (should there be any) and focusing on your breath, or meditation in front of a candle doing the same. This is feeding the inner hunger, learning to control the minds consistant rabble even for short bursts helps to calm the mind and the soul. The pecking we end up doing is perhaps really a cry for help from the soul for this deep balancing act, so simple when you consider its effectiveness to regulate the stresses and strains of everyday life, to cope with lifes slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
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The dying part. I have looked at what I was made of in the personality department and concluded that I was, for the most part, a collection of ideas. This is really what I am dealing with when I work on myself. I don't need to work on the eternal self. It's doing fine. I can only rid myself of the nonsense that my brain has, somehow, latched on to.
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