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This quote from
Florida Scott Maxwell really got me: "You need to claim the events
of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have
done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." I have no idea
who Florida Scott Maxwell is but I love it when someone knocks me down
with a thought. When I read this a long time ago, I was running from
several events of my life. Oh, I acknowledged they happened whenever it
became absolutely necessary but I didn't allow myself to truly possess
all I had done. The biggest
understatement in her words is "which may take some time." Can
anyone embrace a hot coal? That's how some of our events become in our
minds. Hot coals we step around as soon as they come to mind. It took me
years to "possess" them. To possess your
life events doesn't just mean to own up to them. It means to own them.
To say, "Hey, this is a chapter in my life and my life would be
incomplete if it was deleted. It happened. I was there. And I did the
best I could as the person I was and with the consciousness I possessed
at that time." This is the way
to "make yourself yours." I love that phrase. You cannot
belong to yourself until you acknowledge and possess all you have ever
been and see it in the context of the person you was at that time. One time after a
divorce I actually married myself. I went thru the entire ritual and
laughed at first until I realized I knew all my faults! Who would ever
get married if they knew all the faults of their lovers? Well, at some
point you will have to marry yourself to "make yourself
yours." You will have to say "I do" to all the events of
your life and how they have been a part of making you who you are. When you possess
all the events of your life and make yourself yours, Florida Scott
Maxwell says you "become fierce with reality." You no
longer run from it. You become honest and that takes away the fear of
reality. You have already faced the worst and overcome. You no longer
hide from man when you cease to hide from yourself. Websites for information and other writings by Dalton are www.daltonroberts.com and www.ipsfeatures.com.
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