Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: Your physical, your manifestations appear physical
inconveniences; do you see that in a similar vein as much as your
poetry, that it's a part of the unfolding of what wants to happen?
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Yes, I actually do. I think, and this
might go against mainstream nonduality very much, or what other
lovely people say on your show, but I do believe that, or I've come
to know that strong boundaries are also very, very important. I
used to have literally none. I was so open, I was so extremely
open, I just loved the whole world, I loved everybody, and I loved
serving. I was always there for other people, and I always put
everybody before myself, and I was just always of service. I think I
basically swallowed more than I could take in, and I had to learn
the hard lesson to set some healthy boundaries, and to not accept
abuse, for example, and to not accept respectlessness from people,
and learn more what the human me was about, which was a very,
very hard thing to do, because tapping into the infinite has been
almost effortless all my life.
And I think you can probably relate to that, and that comes very
easy, and that is the natural state. But dealing with the nitty gritty
human daily life was something I really had to learn at quite a late
age from scratch, basically. And I do use it every day, like if I ever
get irritated with not finding the right tube size, and needing a
third surgery, because the ordering department messed something
up or so. Then I use it to exercise my patience, which is not one of
my fortes, and I try to use everything as an opportunity, and as a
challenge. It takes sometimes a few days to get around, wrap my
mind around it, or basically probably not to do that, to surrender
the mind, and surrender everything to God. And I'm deeply on the
devotional path, and it sounds like you guys are too from what I'm
picking up.
That is just such a beautiful thing, it's something that's also
unasked for that is just given by grace, and there is just this deep,
deep devotion, no matter what happens to stay true to that, and to
know that everything is that, and when there's appearances to dig
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