Sheesh. How many more times will I have to navigate this particular circuit before I have learned everything I can from it? The turth is in the pattern, not the explanation. It almost feels as though I have been given
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the c-word….”conflict ” and also–avoidance and repair. The archetype, to whom I have gravitated to like a moth to a flame, seems to have little room for either. Being non-pleased feels unacceptable.
Memory Memory can be unreliable. Interpretation certainly is. Two people can experience the same interaction and leave with very different narratives about what happened. What feels more meaningful to me now is paying attention to patterns that could have been
The Reality of Gossip Discussing the details of someone else’s life—their hardships, their choices, or how they live—is a fundamentally unwholesome practice. Gossip happens, and we can be honest about that and not pretend that engaging in it is useful,
The Binary The archetypes seem to move through life inside a rigid binary: winners and losers, heroes and villains, right and wrong. In their accounting for outcomes, there seems a lacking awareness for the possibility of their own poor decisions,
The Architecture of Binary Victory I have intentionally been studying a particular archetype whose sense of rightness often seems to depend on projecting wrongness onto someone else. The Perceived Victimization The archetype appears to operate under a specific system of
The Sovereignty Tax (My Refusal to Bleed) I am 57 years old, and I am only just now learning the practices of sovereignty and radical neutrality. Until recently, no one who has known me would have thought me even remotely
Someone once told me that the cruelest thing you can do to another human being is to label their suspicions as false when you know them to be true. It would be impossible to count the instances where my questioning