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Bearing the Unbearable
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In due course, probably in my lifetime, we will witness a weather event so awesome, so destructive, so evidently outside the realm of normality, that it will wake even the most hardened denialist with a jolt. The problem is that its occurrence will also signal that we’ve left it far too late to act.
~ James Hansen
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If you don’t use the part of the mind that is the intuitive heart-mind, if you don’t cultivate it and use it, you’re just left in a reactive kind of puppetry.
It’s only when the mind, the awareness, draws back that you have a sense of the gestalt — you see the whole thing, and then there is nothing in you pushing it away or grabbing at it.
In order to be able to cultivate that level of awareness, you have to finally come to terms with denial, because otherwise the closing of the heart to protect from despair is too much. To that extent you are not able to work with what is, and there is a part of you that is locked in, closed off from the universe, and so you’re saying, “I wanna be everything. We are all one except for this or that. But that’s too horrible. I can’t bear that.”
What the game is about is bearing the unbearable.
~ Ram Dass
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