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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (84610)	8/2/2000 11:13:24 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

X....... >>A moderate amount of fear in a threatening situation is adaptive, imo- and even animals show fear- it seems to be a universal thing, and probably helpful in moderate amount. I think it's wired into us. I am able to master my fears, but I appreciate them. They seem to do me good and make who I am.>> 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. 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. There's nothing - PERIOD - "I" "you" "me" or anyone can DO to control/process/structure/define/label/store/clutch or restrict to bottle this. For light, energy and love can't be bottled, hidden, etc. It can only be expressed, freely, openly and for the vast majority of folks this is incredibly "annoying." >>As for the rest of your post...I've read it all before. HERE. It's getting old and boring. Just because people don't see the world the way you do it doesn't make them fearful, or unhappy. You seem so wrapped up in your message you no longer communicate like a normal human being. A boy all wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package. That's a turn off for me. I imagine it turns off a few other people too.>> Yup, I'm a "boy" at heart. And as such boys and children don't really communicate "like normal human beings." And - damn!!! - they can be quite "annoying!!!!" >>You might be happy or you might be a whacked out zealot (i'd put my money on number two)- who can tell? Can't see through the smoke screen of your babble.>> Smoke babble, smoke babble, babble. Why judge? Any definition or label which you come up for me or I for you doesn't matter one hill of beans anyway. For it's how we act, what we do, how we risk and whom and how touch or move or help that matters. For all that matters and all that exists anyway is LOVE. Everything else is just smoke, fire, mirrors, burnt brooms, fear and confusion. I chose NOT to perceive the world from a fearful perspective. I chose to be filled with thankfullness and the positive feelings that come from appreciating the incredible blessings that are showered on me every second of everyday - whether I chose to appreciate those blessings or not. Love is always "on." Peace. .......... And, finally.... >>Ask yourself this question- if you make yourself really, really annoying and repetitive, are people going to listen to you? If you fell in a forest would anyone care? >> If we are truly happy, joyful and full of this energy which we completely and openly want to share with others, it shouldn't matter if anyone is interested in listening to us. For when you are positioned from the perspective which wants to give, share, help and serve all meaning and value gets fused in ACTIONS of the present moment - ie. what we say/do/believe - which focuses outward to share/serve/empower others. If "I" was trying to glorify "me" and my agendas/beliefs etc. I'd be valuing myself relative to what others said or thought of me. And it's certain that nobody can please all so that desire/need to prove people are "interested" in me will never, ever be fullfilled if I'm trying to "get" or prove things for "me/I". Yes, the position I am taking may seem like a "sitting duck." But this is the only way I have found to be the avenue to express the light/energy/love that I feel inside.