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Taking responsibility for our "selves" can be traumatic, saddening... Having to feel everything that has been deferred for a lifetime is exhausting business. Not fun at times, it is. The defenses we create to keep us safe from emotional pain from without (which create a sense of alienation and isolated individuality) keep us from seeing what we
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i like this entry. some nice thoughts and all. but you know, wanting to be THERE is a great thing. helping others is a great thing, but not when it incompacitates you as well. sometimes distance and impersonality is needed... so that you can do the best, be the best you can be, you know what i mean? thats why for buddha, its not just compassion, but its impersonal unattached compassion.
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