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There is a difference between our needs and the way we meet our needs. Except sometimes we don’t feel that there is — perhaps because we don’t know of another way for our needs to be met. But if we can learn another way then we can expand our repertoire of behaviour and live more flexible and fulfilled lives.
This post is about two different attitudes to our path through life — Lao Tsu’s sticking to the main road and Robert Frost’s taking the one less travelled. Perhaps we need them both.
One of the difficult times in our lives is the space between the old not working any more and the new not being clear yet. We know we don’t want to go back and yet we don’t know the way forward. What can we do?
Logic, rationality and planning are valuable and probably irreplaceable. But there are other times where we can surprise ourselves — moments of creativity where rationality doesn’t have much to do with it. But I think our lives would be less without them.
I am interested in whether we choose to reveal certain parts of our experience or parts of our selves. It seems to me that we may choose what to reveal but that we may not have much choice about what is there — our choice is whether we reveal it or not.
Breakthroughs are important and irreplaceable and life changing. They are also disorienting and lead to the need for continuing work.
The imperative to live in the here and now can be taken in two ways — one, an invitation to broaden our awareness, and the other, a demand for the narrowing of awareness.
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