Power to Thrive: Recent Comments

Comment on Your Defenses Are Useless

lizashaw — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:12:05 GMT

Amy,
Human pain is inevitable. Defending against the pain is actually a prolonging of the pain, and this is the cause of suffering, because it distracts from the spiritual lessons and personal growth. Conscious suffering is the only way to alleviate your pain and grow from it, thereby, eventually moving out of pain and not continuing to re-experience the same pain again and again, repeating the past.

The empowering paradigm that I draw these ideas from, states that we are very powerful in the face of our pain -- most of us just don't know how to harness this power. What others do to us does not actually cause our suffering. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is a choice. We can either grow from it, or allow it to continue to victimize us. I choose a context that gets me out of continually being a victim.

Thank you for your comment.

Liza

Comment on Your Defenses Are Useless

Amy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:51:14 GMT

Allowing conscious suffering would be similar to purposefully touching a live wire without a protective buffer. The preemptive strikes would act as the grounding device albeit not effectively. I understand the rationale behind this. Pain we cause ourselves is nothing compared to the pain caused by others.

Comment on BIG LOVE

Robert T Canipe — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:51:56 GMT

Marvelous; there's wisdom in their youth and innocence. I often teach my students that I am amazed that humans carry around two people in their heads--that which has the ability to love and create and that which has the ability to hate and kill. What a tremendous contradiction human beings are. Great example.

Comment on Falling is Learning...

jdhogg — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:50:52 GMT

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
M. Scott Peck