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Don Boivin's avatar

I'm just going to stop right at the beginning, before finishing your essay, to comment on this line while it's fresh:

"...nature is a nonjudgmental, life-giving and life-taking container in which all expressions of life cyclically come into being and fade without clinging, unbound by our definitions but truthful to their own innate wisdom."

I just finished sharing to the Notes wall a quote by Robert Saltzman about how non-sensical it is to judge "myself," and now reading this, I am having a powerful deeper experience of the truth in both of your statements. Because we are that nature of which you speak. Judging ourselves, and anything that exists, is an unnatural state of psychosis, a confusion of brain signals, a trick of the mind in which it imagines a fragmented state of two, where there is actually only one (judge and judged).

Okay, I'm okay now 😊. I imagine this visceral understanding will fade, as they always do, but it won't disappear entirely. I will go back to finish your essay now. Thanks for the inspiration, Justyna!

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Forrest Beway's avatar

This essay is heaven. I have been receiving a lot of lovely messages recently asking me very insightful questions such as "did your daddy cutoff your genitals with a buzzsaw when you were 9?" and similar messages from many lovely persons. Yes, real recent messages. I confess I love them all these people, but I don't know how to send love to them. My darkness is shared with them, and don't know what to do.

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