Thanks Vineeto,
It’s such a lovely post to read, again. Especially it stands out to me that the harshness is automatic. The belief that I really should be better than I am.
Hmm. Yes, it’s a nonverbal question, an acceptance. It was only the other day, after a week of really only thinking about the single line “emotionally accepting the intellectually unacceptable “ that it finally dawned on me that the acceptance was the opposite of rejection!
I spend so much time emotionally rejecting everything! Including myself in whatever form I perceive myself.
I am not exaggerating when I say I was, in terms of Actualism interest, thinking of just this one saying Richard liked. I was determined that something he liked should be something I understood, instead of rejecting it, or glossing past it.
Cheers,
Andrew