Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
it makes life more warm hearted, more pleasant. I have a great
circle of friends and lovely family, and the compassion and the
warm heatedness and the gratitude for each other that we all share
with one another, to be in each other's lives and to enjoy and join
in that one spirit and just be, without any judgment, just to be with
one another. That is something I'm deeply, deeply grateful for,
yes.
WIZARD: I find that the period between resistance and
acceptance gets shorter and shorter.
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Yes, it does. I really think it is like a
mental habit that is deeply seated and embedded in the psyche of
us humans, and that can be unlearned, like you said earlier. I also
had to unlearn a lot of things, and unconditioned from a lot of
things. That is definitely one of them, yes.
WIZARD: Trip and I were discussing the other day that it's a
deconstruction in a sense of all the constructs and concepts that
we have about reality. It's hard to build another construct to
replace the old construct that's more just taking the pieces of the
construct apart, one by one.
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: That's absolutely true, and that is also
such a big aspect of grace I find that there's no turning back, that
once you are at that point, and once you have been deconstructed
enough, like you say, you're not in danger of losing that again, that
you're just pulled forward by your own, by this inner grace that is
just coming your way, almost like in the bible with the prodigal
son, meeting you halfway, you don't have to go all the distance.
You do your thing, and you do it whenever you feel called to do it,
and for some people that's at this time, for some people that'll be
at another time. For everybody that is different, but that grace
that meets us halfway and does so much of the work actually,
when we get out of the way and let go of that personal sense that
interferes, and of all these mental constructs, that is just such a
sublime thing to me, that is such a gift we were given, and that
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