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Old Jan 24, 2013, 08:48 AM
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"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.".......................Mortimer Adler

In some areas of our lives we are right on target. Our level of maturity is exactly as it should be, and we are going through the stages that people of our age ought to be going through. In other areas, this is not so. We are complex people, irregular, uneven. In all of us there are areas fixated in some emotional ice age, areas that have not felt the freeing warmth of the sun.

We cannot expect ourselves to move forward all at once. Not only is it okay to move slowly - it's often the only way it can be. Confusion, conflict, or pain may have caused us to let our memories or feelings be frozen safely away. This has been a long process. and we can allow ourselves more time to heal. The task now is not to deny or hide from these changes, but to have confidence that the healing warmth of the program will reflect on all areas of our lives and help make us whole.
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I am thankful I am given both time and patience in which to continue my growth.
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Old Jan 26, 2013, 04:48 AM
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Thank you Leed, that is so comforting.
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Old Jan 27, 2013, 04:18 PM
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Very well put Leed U might want to consider righting books U are awesome...
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Old Feb 19, 2013, 10:13 PM
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Excellent insight to a complex matter. In order to grow we must acknowledge those froZen areas and delve into why they were frozen in time. So we can learn from that experience and move on and hopefully not do the same thing again.
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Old Feb 22, 2013, 12:13 AM
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I have thoughts so frozen from so long ago that I don't know if it would be ok at my age to expose them now. Still having thoughts that it may be to late for me. Then again that is probably just my disease talking to me again.
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