That was a great post, but it was also a pointless hypothetical exercise because you are obviously coming from a much more highly evolved perspective than the person who sent Rick that email.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Put yourself in the friend's shoes: Someone is very angry and hurt > > and expressing that anger and hurt and the response is literally: > its > > OK, I still love you. > > > > How would YOU feel? > > I don't generally respond well to hypotheticals, because they're not- > here-now, but I'll give it a shot. If I were Rick's friend I would be > feeling what he feels -- anger, hurt, betrayal and so on. So? All to > the good. When I've been in that space, there's generally not much the > other can say or do to woo me out of it. Nor should they feel > obligated to try. I am feeling it because I want to -- because I need > to. That's my emotional "weather" at that moment. Being given the > space to feel what I need to feel, and to be reassured that Love > remains regardless -- that's a good thing, and something I have > rejoiced to know when my own deep-held concepts and attachments were > being shaken to their very foundations. > > In this case, anger, hurt and betrayal are precisely what I *should* > be feeling, as these are signposts that I have placed my eggs in a > conceptual basket that happened to shake simply by Rick's standing for > his own Truth. Good for Rick, and my eventual thanks to him. Any > conceptual basket and all of its eggs are going to fall sooner or > later. If I were not ready to have the basket shook, trust me; it > wouldn't have shaken. > :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
