Moderators Alana, Ana and Herondancer

It's great to know that more and more people are keeping an eye on things for us here. Thank you very much :flowers: :love: :flowers:
:rockon: Moderators!!!
 
Awesome to see you, Ana, Alana and Herondancer as moderators!
My reaction went something like: well, not surprising! I have no doubt the three of you will do a great job.
 
That is great news! Congratulations to Herodancer, Alana and Ana! Well done, and wish you the best in your new duties!

:thup: :clap:
 
You are on the right way! I am thinking about my work, about how I am interacting with my family, my friends and colleagues, how small I am actually, how ego-driven, how narcissistic! Everyday life! And I have many, many doubts. I always come to the conclusion, that I can't trust them and I can't trust myself! Nobody can't be trusted, because most them, including me, have not mastered themselves! And in this paranoid world, where everyone is just a tool more or less, I know, that there is still something worth fighting for, something that is beautiful, a continuum, something that is not me ALONE. Maybe this sounds cheesy. I am emotional right know. And even if I am wrong, I believe that it exists: STO! Every cloud has a silver lining, as they say, even if I don't understand it. I am believing in people like you! I believe in the silver lining :) Keep going :cry:
 
Everyone's words of support give me courage and strength to do my best. Thank you! But you guys are the reason this community exists, so keep this great work up! :rockon:

Floetus said:
Keep going :cry:
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We will all keep going, Floetus :) You too along with us. Reading your post and seeing the crying smiley you added at the end, it reminded of a passage from the book, Women who Run with the Wolves. The author, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, just shared the story of the Handless Maiden (which appears to be a German fairy tale ;) ) and in this chapter to which i am referring to, she breaks down the story and discusses all the elements in it in relation to the psychic journey towards awakening. In the story (which you can read in the link above) the Devil is trying to take the innocent maiden with him. But he fails, because the maiden keeps on expressing her sorrow with crying, and her tears make it impossible for the Devil to approach her, so he gives up. The author writes:

Here, tears are the "thrown object", the watery wall that keeps out the Devil, not because the Devil is moved or made soft by them - he is not - but because there is something about the purity of true tears that causes the Devil's power to be broken. And we find this to be true when we cry for the love of God that nothing, nothing is on the horizon but the most bleak, the most dark and unredeemed possibilities, and yet the tears save us from being burned to the ground for no useful end. [...]

Crying is good, it is right. It does not cure the dilemma, but it enables the process to continue instead of collapsing [...] Our lives as we once knew them are over. We are desirous of being alone, perhaps being left alone. We can no longer rely on the fatherly dominant culture; we are in the midst of learning our real lives for the first time. We go on.
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