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Subject: Holding ourselves gently


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Cassie
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Date Posted: 14:29:22 02/20/01 Tue
 Sometimes I do stupid things and sometimes I look at someone else and see how much more wonderful they are than I am. And then I don't hold myself very well anymore.

I am wanting to be more conscious in these places. Wanting to inquire into this. Who is this character that loves to put me down? How is it that in one moment I can observe that my house is a mess and 20 seconds later I am feeling that I don't have any right to take up space on the planet?

Does anybody else do this too? And how do we hold this part of ourselves, this self-destructive part? Do we greenlight even this?

It seems so interesting to me to investigate the ways in which we hold ourselves. It seems like such a fine thing to remember to hold ourselves gently. Maybe we can't always do it well, but we can at least become conscious of how we're doing it poorly. That's a start.

Lovingly, Cassie
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More thoughts on thisCassie01:50:04 02/21/01 Wed
Re: Holding ourselves gentlyGill05:25:20 02/21/01 Wed

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