I am having an out of body experience due to what I must accept as another's choice. I somersault through disbelief, anger, pity, love, sadness, loss, and back to disbelief again. This excerpt from Leap by Terry Tempest Williams tells the story. What would you choose?
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There are two ways of escaping the pain
and despair of life, and of the rarest, most
subtle dangerous and ensnaring gift that life
can bring us, relationship with another
person - love.
One way is to kill that love in one's heart.
To kill love - to kill life.
The other way is to accept that love, to
accept the snare, to accept the pricks, the thistle.
To accept life - but that is dangerous.
It is also dangerous not to accept life. . .
Every man and woman is free to accept or
deny life - to accept or reject this questionable
gift - this thistle.
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It is important to accept the shadow in all of us because then it cannot thrive.
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There are two ways of escaping the pain
and despair of life, and of the rarest, most
subtle dangerous and ensnaring gift that life
can bring us, relationship with another
person - love.
One way is to kill that love in one's heart.
To kill love - to kill life.
The other way is to accept that love, to
accept the snare, to accept the pricks, the thistle.
To accept life - but that is dangerous.
It is also dangerous not to accept life. . .
Every man and woman is free to accept or
deny life - to accept or reject this questionable
gift - this thistle.
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It is important to accept the shadow in all of us because then it cannot thrive.