I Can't Be Found In Myself; I

If The Ocean Was Pure Mind And I Was A Wave, I Would Be In Terror If Itried To Distinguish Myself Fromthe Water That Produced Me.what Is A Wave Without Water, And What Is A Mind Without God?

Boredom Is Useful To Me When I Notice It And Think: Oh I'm Bored; There Must Be Something Else I Want To Be Doing... Boredom Acts As An Initiator Of Originality By Pushing Me Into New Activities Or New Thoughts.

Within Me Is The Potential To Commit Every Evil Act I See Being Committed By Other Men, And Unless I Feel This Potential, I Can At Any Moment Be Controlled By These Same Urges. I Am Free From These Urges Only If I Recognize When I Am Feeling Them, And While Feeling Them And Acknowledging Them To Be Me, Choose Not To Follow Them. Only In This Way Can I Begin To Regain The Disowned Parts Of Me. And Only In This Way Can I Know What It Is I Am Criticizing In Others.

By Approaching My Problems With "what Might Make Things A Little Better?" Rather Than "what Is The Solution?" I Avoid Setting Myself Up For Certain Frustration. My Experience Has Shown Me That I Am Not Going To Solve Anything In One Stroke; At Best I Am Only Going To Chip Away At It.

For Communication To Have Meaning It Must Have A Life. It Must Transcend "you And Me" And Become "us." If I Truly Communicate, I See In You A Life That Is Not Me And Partake Of It. And You See And Partake Of Me. In A Small Way We Then Grow Out Of Our Old Selves And Become Something New. To Have This Kind Of Sharing I Cannot Enter Into A Conversation Clutching Myself. I Must Enter Into It With Loose Boundaries. I Must Give Myself To The Relationship, And Be Willing To Be What Grows Out Of It.