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Originally Posted by treehouse
It was about making ourselves bigger to contain our pain...that the pain will always be there, but that the more we can expand ourselves, the smaller the pain will be. It was a story about throwing a handful of salt (pain) into a glass vs. throwing a handful of salt into a lake. The water in the glass becomes undrinkable...the water in the lake stays fresh. I told him I want to be the lake.
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Treehouse this is a nice concept. Only to me I see making ourselves larger to dilute the pain as just one part of it. I see this expansion as also being about creating more inner space so that the pain doesn't totally occupy us. Expansion allows us room to also take in the amazing and really good things of life like- joy, happiness, and love.
Being a lake or an ocean sounds a lot better than simply being a sippy cup :-)
Thanks for this analogy.
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