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To be with what is means making even the hesitation feel authentic, even the nervousness feel brave. https://t.co/tFk1hiwp6Z

The professor sifts away what doesn’t need responding. https://t.co/135y7R9iHO

She neither affirms nor rebukes “nervousness is a problem.” She doesn’t need to. She simply makes an informed guess about what lies behind it, and putting the student in touch with that. https://t.co/gRQxvGk9dT

We love it so sweetly when someone takes a chance to reach into behind what we said and put us in touch with a part of ourselves that was in pain. https://t.co/XJS4MJZKtH

“Why does acceptance hurt?” Because the hurt is already there. The pain and effort of maintaining a delusion, of grasping on so tightly so that we might survive, clefting off voices in ourselves so we might not lose focus — that hurts. https://t.co/PRDI7kIlPc

We want to be rescued. We cannot be. https://t.co/sJR9Q3Nlyv

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