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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (84611)8/2/2000 11:46:44 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
>Just my opinion, but we can't "master our fears" for fear itself is irrational. All fear must
be shed and there's no way "I" have the power to do anything about it other than
create/maintain/nurse this defensive/clutching/paranoid stalemate. <

I pity people who think they can't master their fears. Lots of irrational things can be mastered. I've had life threatening accidents and remained calm even though I was afraid- that is mastery. I've been afraid for my children but mastered my fears to take control of situations. I don't understand the universe, but I am the master of mine (and my domain, too). I HAVE irrational emotions- but I control them. For example, if we were at a dinner party, and you said this kind of stuff to me, I would have the irrational urge to slap you and bring you to your senses. But instead I would nod politely and get away from you as fast as I could. JMO

Do you do this goofy guru stuff in real life, or only here, on the net?

>Only by "letting go", risking and stepping out to help others can we experience the
transformative energy which repositions our orientation from clutching positions in the
darkness to the open/expansive positions in the light. <

And this absolutist crap gets really old. There is no "only", in my universe. Any man who thinks he has found the "only" is locked in the straightjacket of his own beliefs and is truly blind. Of course I don't believe that 100%- or I'd be like YOU- it's just my working theory.
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