“Do not pour guilt into someone’s psyche, and don’t let anyone tamper with your conscience.”
― Zeina Glo
It’s so easy to talk about emotional storms and riding out emotions both negative and positive. It’s a lot more difficult to walk the walk. I have problems from time to time with frustration. When frustrated, often my first instinct is to lash out and then close down. I have gotten better at watching it happen but still from time to time I slip. Also, occasionally I get called on it. Then my frustration with myself increased, with a good dose of guilt thrown in. Of course the end result (at my best) is that I gain self-knowledge and I become that much better at accepting what’s going on and letting the emotions flow through. At times it’s been tricky and at times I’ve hurt others (and myself) on an emotional level that I can work to heal but never quite restore.
Still it’s a part of me and I have to cop to it, Thus I dance with my shadow, embrace it and accept it. Perhaps a little more each day.
Blessings, G
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Angelic Touch by G A Rosenberg
Field of Motion by G A Rosenberg
I prefer to learn from others’ struggles and triumphs on a larger scale than to test them (or myself) on the minor daily fuck-ups and inconsistencies in their/my ever-evolving consciousness and life expression. But, I do not always succeed in remembering this … and thus – I sometimes – fuck up. That being said, some issues that others consider to be “huge” I dismiss rather flippantly, and then other “minor” issues (which generally have to do with intent) can rile me up so much that even I do not want to piss myself off.
Sometimes I wonder if there really is so much difference between a fallen angel and an evolving ape …
We seem to partake of the nature of both the evolving ape and fallen angel at that
I agree about the relativity of issues for sure..
I just read another relevant blog post which also made me stop and think:
http://shatteredsmoke.com/2014/03/05/shit-happens/
That was great. Thanks for turning me on to the blog.
Hear you clearly Gary, at least you can dance with your shadow, not run from it…
It’s taken a lot of practice and testing along the way.
thanks
“Only one who knows that it is for a cause greater than the self, only one who knows that this is not the end, only one knows that there are answers to all the questions, but they are yet out of reach, out of the syllabus of this school, and will come in their own time, only one who has Faith on the One whose parts we are, only one who knows that there is method in this madness, that that method will be revealed in some other dimension, that The Master who orchestrates it all is a benign master who suffers with His children; only that one is free from suffering”. Zeina Glo on ;All Is Well’
Thank you Zeina and YES for sure..