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Member
How Do You Identify?:
Femme
Preferred Pronoun?:
Woman
Relationship Status:
In recovery.
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Oregon
Posts: 632
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Such a delicate thing- caring for ourselves & offering assistance & support to others where we are able. The impulse to assist is genuine & heart-felt. Sometimes we only know in hindsight that we have dangerously depleted our inner or outer resources, neglected to take care of our own lives/health so we can continue to give from a place of joy & generosity. This discernment- knowing what we can offer in a sustainable way- rests on deep self-knowledge & acceptance of our resources we have in this moment, (which are always changing) & motives (which are sometimes tangled in old beliefs about needing to "earn" our right to be.) And still, it is our in nature to reach out & offer what we can- we are inter-dependent beings. May we draw a wide circle of compassion & make sure to put ourselves on the inside along with all other sentient beings. ~Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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 Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~Ani
I want to think again
of dangerous and noble things;
I want to be light and frolicsome;
I want to be improbable, beautiful
and afraid of nothing as if I had wings
Mary Oliver
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