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DON'T ASSUME YOU ARE BROKEN!
"In order to be
irreplaceable one must always be
different."
-- Coco
Chanel
Hi everyone!
If you've read my story on the 'women
at heart' site, you'll know I grew up
feeling like an alien. I felt that I
didn't fit with the world. I also
perceived myself as 'a shell around a
dark void' -- those are the very words
I use in my bio on
Higher Awareness
So my jaw dropped when Jed McKenna (in
his book, 'Spiritual Enlightenment')
referred to enlightenment as the
experience of the void and 'no-self.'
Amazing! What was once my greatest
despair, I have now chosen for a
destination!
Here's the message I want to share from
all this. I thought 'being a shell
around a dark void' was a VERY BIG
PROBLEM, and that belief brought deep
and long-lasting suffering for me. I
can see now that it wasn't a problem;
it was a clue to my nature and purpose.
So this prompts me to ask each of you,
"Which assumptions at the core of your
life might be inherently off-base?"
I will leave you with that question and
the gift of these words from Jed
McKenna:
"I'll tell you what I wish someone had
told me when I was feeling confused and
alienated. I wish someone had told me
that there wasn't something wrong with
me and that I shouldn't be trying to
make it right; that I should stop
trying to pound a square peg into a
round hole. I wish someone had told me
that I wasn't like everyone else not
because I was defective, but because I
was designed for other things. Being
different might seem like a curse, but
the important part is that it's also a
blessing. I wish someone had told me to
stop trying to fix the curse part and
start figuring out the blessing part."
It's quite possible that if someone had
passed on this wisdom to me back in the
darkness of my 'you are a fraud!' days,
I wouldn't have been able to even hear
the message, let alone believe it.
Still, I'm passing it on now in hopes
that it will offer some of you support
early on. We can always hope.
~ Patrice
"Nature never
repeats herself, and the possibilities
of one human soul will never be found
in another."
-- Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
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