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if you're going to advocate for unguarded open-hearted intimate contact with the present moment please let me know you also understand the survival value of living with guards up, dissociated, tightly controlled by the grip of self discipline
@RichDecibels there is a time to open and a time to close. inability to do one will cause problems embodied existence in nature makes it embodied-ly obvious we need both, at different times, but somehow to minds-alone this often looks paradoxical 🤷♀️ https://t.co/o5vz7uwU9q
In tending fire, you learn: To hang back when you need to hang back. To be assertive when you need to be assertive, To wait when you need to wait. To be patient. To build a good foundation first, To build a good housing structure for the tiny coal that will live there.