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the ability to create "nothing's wrong" by observing the fabric of
the conversation
"something's wrong"
and noticing it's built into the
machinery;
"something's wrong"
doesn't mean anything's wrong; it may mean
something's wrong,
and it may not (it most often doesn't);
"something's wrong"
is just another conversation;
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the willingness to get that this is the way it turned
out; it didn't turn out any other way; this is it, and it's
OK the way it is;
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the recognition that barriers in life are prewritten into the human
condition: they're cultural, they're plural, they only show
up personal - and they're not personal;
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the generosity to give something up when confronting a situation
that doesn't work; it doesn't mean anything; the only problem is
positionality;
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the courage to come from your own experience - not as a way to win,
to be right, to dominate, to look good, or to survive but rather
simply as a way of being which honors Self as the gift of Life just
because you're alive;
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the audacity to stand for something great without agreement, and to
keep standing for it until the impossible becomes possible, until
the ain't gonna happen becomes commonplace;
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the risk to try on new paradigms without regard for ease or comfort
until the paradigm that becomes you is the one everyone else is
enrolled in you being;
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the compassion to be with life raw: rather than granting space to
its stuff while letting its being be, granting space to its being
while letting its stuff be;
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the humanity to regard your transformation as a gift you see other
people already having which they're being rather than as something
you see other people missing which they're needing;
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10)
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the magnanimity to invent "nothing's wrong" as a stand, as an
opening, as a possibility.
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