This essay,
Lucid Disclosures,
is the third in the fourth trilogy
Questions For A Friend:
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The first trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. |
The second trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. | The third trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. |
The fifth trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. | The sixth trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. |
The seventh trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. | The eighth trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. |
The ninth trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. | The tenth trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. |
The eleventh trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. | The twelfth trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. |
The thirteenth trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. | The fourteenth trilogy Questions For A Friend is: in that order. |
This essay,
Lucid Disclosures,
is also the second in a quadrilogy inspired by
Werner's work
in
India:
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What's possible for language is to generate possibility rather than merely talk about things. And there's never been a time - not once, not ever - when I've spoken with you when a new experience, when a new opportunity, when a new possibility didn't come out of what was spoken. Whenever I get to speak with you I'm reminded as much of how that's possible, as I'm reminded how much I'm thrown as a social animal to settle for exchanging noises which pass for conversations. Being in a conversation with you is the possibility of being transformed. When I'm in a conversation like this one with you in which something becomes possible, in which something becomes available which wasn't even on the horizon before, it makes me realize although it's not true that "talk is cheap", if I go unconscious during my speaking, if I don't stay present when I'm speaking then I'm the one who cheapens my own talk. Ordinarily if I said something became possible in a conversation which wasn't possible before, it may sound like we came up with a solution, with an answer, with a resolution ... or something like that. While all of the above may be valuable and useful, they're not what I'm alluding to here. |
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AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, WHAT YOU WRITE IS USEFUL FOR PEOPLE AND THEREFORE IT SERVES ME. <unquote> |
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NO. <unquote> |
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LEAVE THE PERSON WITH THE EXPERIENCE THAT THE "NO" EXISTS WHERE YOU ARE, ALONG WITH WHATEVER ELSE WAS THERE WITH THE PERSON WHEN THEY SAID NO. <unquote> |
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WAKING UP TO THE TRUTH ABOUT MYSELF AND MY LIFE. <unquote> |
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