Dissonance
When you see how life fails, you see its success more clearly. This is why I follow a left handed path spiritually. That and natural disposition.
I paraphrase a famous quote, ‘nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.’ But it is also how we see it. I dwell now. Here in the now.
“If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of” Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Dealing with Negativity
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Being Out of Place
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What can we do?
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Prosody
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Harmony and Dissonance in Play
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Forced Correction
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Accept Your Failings
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Mirror of Your Own Treasures
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