Noah
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ORIGINAL: slavejali ... i would be captured and taken to a place. So many people become confused at this intersection and can't decide which way to go. The intersection of surrender and liberation. Your beautiful post, Jali, and the thread which follows are sure to help someone through this confusion. and maybe decide that there isn't anywhere they need to go, that they are just fine where they are. I think sometimes that there are things which can only be described from the bottom or from the top. There isn't any objective, unifying viewpoint. I couldn't have said the things you said here, for instance. What I can offer is my opinion that the way out of confusion is not always toward "understanding" in the most usual, rational sense of the word. Sometimes it has more to do with something like acceptance. Acceptance itself, of course, is something that is not gained, not something conquered. Acceptance is itself a kind of surrender. Surrendering to Surrender. Isn't fun how this Moebius world sometimes loops back upon itself without tangling, if we only let it? What I find lovely about this conversation so far is the extent to which it doesn't ask "why?" and the extent to which it doesn't bother with statements like "This is this" or "I am that" I believe that all possible answers to those kinds of questions, though potentially temporarily helpful, are ultimately wrong if only in virtue of being crucially limited, and so dangerous to hold too tightly to. Thanks.
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