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How can you love people when you need people?

Posted in Books and Ideas, Entanglements, Relationships, tagged , , on November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »

If I had a prayer, it would be this:
“God, spare me from the desire
for love, approval, or appreciation”.
From “Loving What is”, by Byron Katie
Let me say from the start:  when it comes to romantic love, I was cultured into the whole you-complete-me belief  through films, books and some ideas that basically made it [...]

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What Happens When We Don’t Let Go?

Posted in Entanglements, Response, tagged , , , , on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In Asia there is a very clever trap for catching monkeys. People hollow out a coconut, put something sweet in it, and make a hole at the bottom of the coconut just big enough for the monkey to slide its open hand in, but not big enough for the monkey to withdraw its hand as [...]

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Practice unfolding: no halo after all

Posted in Entanglements, Response on March 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Just when I thought I started noticing a soft glow of a halo forming around my head, toying with the idea that I was actually becoming a more balanced person – bang! – a major revelation:  this is all B.S, I am full of B. S.

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“Sunlight, I wish you were night”

Posted in Entanglements on August 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It was not supposed to be like this. My precious self was not supposed to be treated like this.
Unable to change the past my mind starts creating a story of the future, writing a part for that other person to play in my own little play. The past made me angry but this imaginable [...]

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