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In true power, you love freely because you do not fear rejection or pain. You give of yourself because you know that rejection is a sign of the other's inability to receive what you are. You do not compete with another because competition implies shame and denies the mastery of both of you. And you know that ultimately you're competing with yourself. True power cooperates selflessly, knowing that it can't be taken advantage of. It forgives unconditionally because you flow effortlessly through life and because you acknowledge your role in co-creating every event in your life. You blame no one, not even yourself, because you are following Spirit in every moment. You do not judge anyone or anything because you know that judgement is based on shame. Instead you look to Spirit for what is true in the moment. And from this perspective, you see everything as Spirit-in-expression, working through personalities. You may not see the perfection of the expression of others, but you know that you're not their judge, so you just give them the room they need without becoming embroiled in their expression. If suffering comes into your life, you do not avoid it, but experience it and honor your creativity for having manifested it.
An Ascension Handbook
Tony Stubbs
In our attempt to feel secure, we try to control our external environment. But in this place, there is no room for the unknown, for freedom, for magic.
Objects & Attachment: The Illusion of Security
holisticism.com
The better hope lies along a less negative path. Englightened minds are beginning to feel convinced of this, An acceptance of individual personality drives adjusted to essential principles of social harmony seems on the way. This envisages not a suppression or perversion of innate drives, but an acceptance of them under the condition that they be tempered within the requirements of social mutuality of interests. This necessitates a constant reappraisal of principles of social harmony, so that human behavior be no longer subjected to repressions dictated by the obsessive prejudices and standards of outworn eras. Much of the distortion and neurosis in contemporary personalities is directly attributable to the pressures of social standards unsuited to contemporary needs. Much legitimate, creative energy is driven underground by atmospheres of shame and guilt that invade the healthiest consciences because the vapors of ignorance and stale values are foisted upon them.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
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