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The Secret Grief
No one won the last war and no one will win the next war.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Grief shatters the heart at its very foundation making everything that was once so sure and comfortable feel unsafe and unsteady.
We may look the same, but in an instant, we have been changed forever.
Pieces of our identity, our security, and our stability suddenly don’t fit together in the way they used to or in the way that we always thought they would.
And there’s so much happening underneath the surface that others may not readily notice.
~ Liz Newman
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Now when you develop the ego structure, this mechanism, this central computer necessary for running the game, the question arises as to how attached you are, or how identified you are with it. In spiritual evolution, you don’t destroy the ego, you merely turn away from identifying with it, to having it as a functional unit. You still need it as a functional unit so that when I’m talking to you I realize there’s a you and a me and I’m talking to you on this plane. I’ve also gotta have my heart open so that at another plane I’m just talking to myself. Right? These are two planes of reality. Because it’s God talking to itself.
