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What would have happened if she called out for help? Who would have comforted her?
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I don't know? I can only remember being afraid, hiding, and not seeking comfort in the room across the hall. I simply don't know why. Maybe I was too prideful even then to ask others to comfort me. I guess the why doesn't really matter much. It's the awareness and acceptance that I still tend to do this that matters more. Along with the the knowledge that I can change this behavior.
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Well, shining a light on things always makes the boogeyman go back in the closet. But I would ask whether that means the boogeyman was never there? Or was he there, but only in the dark? If he goes away at dawn, does that have to mean that the experience is invalidated? Or can we accept the experience as a moment when we needed comfort but it wasn't there.
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Miss C while lounging on the deck this afternoon I just read the following passage from the Eckhart Tolle book I am currently reading:
"The many things that happen, the many forms the life takes on, are of an ephemeral nature. They are all fleeting. Things, bodies, and egos, events situations, thoughts, emotions, desires, ambitions, fear, drama...they come, pretend to be all-important, and before you know it they are gone, dissolved into the no-thingness out of which they came. Were they ever real? Were they ever more than a dream, the dream of form?"
"When we wake up in the morning, the night's dream dissolves, and we say, "Oh, it was only a dream. It wasn't real." But something in the dream must have been real otherwise it could not be. When death approaches, we may look back on our life and wonder if it was just another dream. Even now you may look back on last year's vacation or yesterday's drama and see that it is very similar to last night's dream."