At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.
Take any emotion__ove for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I__ going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions__f you don__ allow yourself to go all the way through them__ou can never get to being detached, you__e too busy being afraid. You__e afraid of the pain, you__e afraid of the grief. You__e afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. __ut by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, __ll right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment_.
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Take any emotion__ove for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I__ going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions__f you don__ allow yourself to go all the way through them__ou can never get to being detached, you__e too busy being afraid. You__e afraid of the pain, you__e afraid of the grief. You__e afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. __ut by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, __ll right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment_.
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