Posted by jujube on November 18, 2004, at 16:14:05
In reply to Disappointed myself, posted by partlycloudy on November 18, 2004, at 8:04:51
Just some food for thought from a book I am currently reading. I share this because it is helping me understand and cope with where I am coming from these days.
"Basically, disappointment, embarrassment, and all these places where we just cannot feel good are a sort of death. We've just lost our ground completely; we are unable to hold it together and feel that we're on top of things. Rather than realizing that it takes death for there to be birth, we just fight against the fear of death.
Reaching our limit is not some kind of punishment. It's actually a sign of health that, when we meet the place where we are about to die, we feel fear and trembling. A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by feat and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us. Things like disappointment and anxiety are messengers telling us that we are about to go into unknown territory."
Tamara
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