Comments on: Divided Self and the Voices in my Head http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/10/19/divided-self-and-the-voices-in-my-head/ A blog for Mara Collins Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jenny http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/10/19/divided-self-and-the-voices-in-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-3174 jenny Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:15:28 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=240#comment-3174 Hey! Some guy named Patrick just posted my thoughts for me! I guess that is bound to happen more than once, using the same computer while I wait for the hard drive to be replaced on mine. Hey! Some guy named Patrick just posted my thoughts for me!

I guess that is bound to happen more than once, using the same computer while I wait for the hard drive to be replaced on mine.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/10/19/divided-self-and-the-voices-in-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-3173 Patrick Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:11:51 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=240#comment-3173 Is it possible to think in feelings? I think I do. Maybe that's why I have a hard time putting my thoughts into words sometimes. I love your more comprehensive list of the ways we divide ourselves. I met with Susan today, going over some step work, and was not surprised to see that so many of my fears (and hence my resentments) continue to be rooted in the way I operate from a place of scarcity, a belief that there isn't enough of any of the good stuff to go around. There's another division: the abundant self and the self of scarcity. Is it possible to think in feelings? I think I do. Maybe that’s why I have a hard time putting my thoughts into words sometimes.

I love your more comprehensive list of the ways we divide ourselves. I met with Susan today, going over some step work, and was not surprised to see that so many of my fears (and hence my resentments) continue to be rooted in the way I operate from a place of scarcity, a belief that there isn’t enough of any of the good stuff to go around. There’s another division: the abundant self and the self of scarcity.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/10/19/divided-self-and-the-voices-in-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-3171 Patrick Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:30:54 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=240#comment-3171 Excellent! I read somewhere that life is suffering, but most people would never subscribe to this notion, and in fact resists it. Appetites, ego, unattainable or deceptive desires become the emotional trap of our own making, they separate our selves from within and create a maddening dialouge that seems to perpetuate the division. If the voices are the result of a fracturing, does awareness glimpse the truth that conditions can be altered by a change of view point? If the voices are a product of the fracture, does "wholeness" or "release" come from constant mindfulness and an ever widening awareness of the interdependence of the self to all its parts? Once whole the relationship reverts to that of the self back into the world. And the cycle begins again Excellent!
I read somewhere that life is suffering, but most people would never subscribe to this notion, and in fact resists it. Appetites, ego, unattainable or deceptive desires become the emotional trap of our own making, they separate our selves from within and create a maddening dialouge that seems to perpetuate the division. If the voices are the result of a fracturing, does awareness glimpse the truth that conditions can be altered by a change of view point? If the voices are a product of the fracture, does “wholeness” or “release” come from constant mindfulness and an ever widening awareness of the interdependence of the self to all its parts? Once whole the relationship reverts to that of the self back into the world. And the cycle begins again

]]> By: Marjorie http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/10/19/divided-self-and-the-voices-in-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-3155 Marjorie Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:37:02 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=240#comment-3155 The fractured, not divided, part really spoke to me--particularly after this week. I feel fractured because I can't even organize how I'm feeling divided. Does that even make sense? (And I'm dreading those homework days.) The fractured, not divided, part really spoke to me–particularly after this week. I feel fractured because I can’t even organize how I’m feeling divided. Does that even make sense?

(And I’m dreading those homework days.)

]]> By: unreliable narrator http://www.oleoptene.com/2008/10/19/divided-self-and-the-voices-in-my-head/comment-page-1/#comment-3154 unreliable narrator Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:16:52 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/?p=240#comment-3154 Mom needs a fish like Dad needs a lightbulb? Sitting here in my own silly paralysis having hot flashes, happy to be reading it put so well as: "the awareness of the choosing after choosing in a string." It would be nice to be less wordless. But I am so grateful for your words. Mom needs a fish like Dad needs a lightbulb?

Sitting here in my own silly paralysis having hot flashes, happy to be reading it put so well as: “the awareness of the choosing after choosing in a string.”

It would be nice to be less wordless. But I am so grateful for your words.

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