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Author: brian fletcherbrian fletcher Date: Dec 30, 2007 15:49
"Miller" chartermi.net> wrote in message
news:oIOdj.17$d96.13@newsfe06.lga...>> Somehow the two seem inextricably linked, and I think this is the
>> reason: when you are experiencing some emotional pain, you are in your
>> most vulnerable state . . . the state in which the ego all but
>> disappears.
>>
>> And when your ego is not in the way, you have cleared the path for
>> understanding and insight. The obstacles are removed when you finally
>> give up and let go. It's about submission, and the pain is the
>> catalyst.
>>
>> And then, amazingly, all you have to do is ask and the answers are
>> provided.
>
> When people dwell on their pain, such as that which can cuase clinical
> depresssion, just the opposite happens: all one can think about is their
> own pain. This is submission to a runaway ego.
>
> Scott
You are being very harsh there Scott. Such pain can be all encompasing, so
there is not a great deal of available attention to 'work it out'.
Where I think both ta and I are coming from, is that the relation to the
initiation of the pain, and how it is always related to resistance.
BOfL
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