Re: Re: Another Story/Jan - Liz

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Jan wrote:

> I think that's what means in the paradox that you're never alone

> - even in the dessert...it just looks like you're alone to which I

> respond - you're never in a relationship - it just looks like you're

> in a relationship!

Hi, Jan. I agree with you, and a thought that floated through here

was, " I'm never alone, I'm always in relationship with my

projections. " A hard part for me seems to be remembering that it's my

projections I'm in relationship with (if I'm in relationship at all),

that the real people over there are out of my reach. The best I can do

seems to be paying careful attention so that my internal map of

projections stays as up to date as possible with the people I want

them to represent.

Rewriting de Mello:

" ..that if I wish to be alive and free I must shed my fear of walking

unaccompanied; then [i will see that It is] my constant resting place,

for everywhere I go [i will notice that It has always been] present

---and then, at last the whole of creation will be a home to me. "

Tom

> Liz wrote:

>

> >

> > Thank you for putting into words what's in my heart, Liz

>

> I'm so glad!

>

> After I wrote that, I was thumbing through one of De Mello's

> books and came to a passage about the pilgrim...

>

> " ..that if I wish to be alive and free

> I must shed my fear of walking unaccompanied;

> then He will be my constant resting place,

> for everywhere I go He will be present

> ---and then, at last the whole of creation

> will be a home to me. "

>

> I don't cotton much to the " He " part - it's more about energy and

> what's at the very core of my being, your being and everyone who's

> reading this beingness.

>

> I think that's what means in the paradox that you're never alone

> - even in the dessert...it just looks like you're alone to which I

> respond - you're never in a relationship - it just looks like you're

> in a relationship!

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