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Letting go

“Yes, love has teeth! It asks us one terrible and demanding question; "What are you going to do now? Now that you've stopped blaming your mother,… husband,… wife, environment... What are you going to do?" Being a lover, becoming a soul, means making choices. The key choice is, which paradigm? Who or what is the One for you? Who is the One who is calling you home? For me, the one is Jesus, inescapably Jesus.”

Love is more than just niceness but pain, pity, etc

What does grace mean to me?

Freedom? From? Of? Responsibility, creativity and maturity. To regress.

“We need to help each other. without help I get trapped inside myself, and the pain of contradiction is translated as despair because I don’t know how to interpret what is happening to me”

Beautiful. Terrified. Understanding

Salvation
Revelation
Is ruminating good?
“Read, march, learn and inwardly digest”(51)
“Birth to ourselves”(51)

“… and the desire for the truth becomes the desire to master reality rather than experience it.”

“Is it possible to look, simply look, without prematurely interpreting what we see? Could we do this without subjecting ourselves to immediate self-definition and self-imaging?”