There's a lot in here…I'll take this one to preschool today and revisit some others this weekend.
BTW I feel safe and mostly understood living here. It's interesting your initial motivation was female presence and I do enjoy being a woman now more than I used to in that I understand what a feminine presence can do to a home when not just used for decisions gratification and that is empowering, to be appreciated for that. The other thing is that you recognized the more gender-nonspecific aspects of my strengths such as persistence, resolution, tolerance and my emotional modulation – the last of these is something I've worked hard at. I'm not perfect but it's good that these days I'm working on myself so that I can be more comfortable and pleased with my own life rather than being accepted by anyone else… and a lot of that comes from just being accepted up front, not having to do anything to be accepted. It's set the bar for everyone else. Even in psych care there was a pressure to respond to “treatment” which was bogus and work-oriented, pressure to conform to lower standards… nobody was ever interested in unlocking any hidden treasure in me or nurturing it or allowing me to have the things/environment I needed to be well… or even just leaving me alone.
I'm glad that I'll never be able to go back to that way of thinking, being complicit with inhumane unkindnesses. Whenever I get scared and start seeing the world as threatening I'm able to get away from that thinking much more quickly from within and it won't be long before I've blocked it out completely and shut and locked the doors on that living hell that somehow got in there and tried to grow.
Subconscious!!!!!!!!!!
And this-
HE WHO LAUGHS MOST — LEARNS BEST.
The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2025, 7:58 PM Leonard Dubrow <leonard@perfectuniv.com> wrote:
HAPPY THANKSGIVINGCLASSIC BOOK REVIEW: “The Message of New Thought” Abel Leighton AllenRobert M. McBride & Company New York 1924“New Thought is not a religion of yesterday or a philosophy for tomorrow — but for today. It is a religion of life & for man's use. Its purpose is to teach man how to live now & to find the highest and best in life. Our yesterdays are gone, our today is here. 'Yesterday is only a dream, tomorrow's only vision.' We cannot control the past but we can perform the duties of today. Today will be the past tomorrow; we can only make it glorious by acting well today. New Thought presents a religion of life and that the best preparation for the continued existence the soul, after the last great change, id a life worthwhile here. This has been the message of the masters of thought in all ages. New thought is a philosophy of the living, a religion for today.”Abel Allen: New Thought is a synonym for growth, for development, for perpetual and eternal progress. It recognizes the superior and excellent in man; it deals not with limitations; it sets no bounds to the soul's progress, for it sees in each soul transcendental faculties as limitless as infinity itself.The Goal is the understanding of life, of man and a conscious unity of man with God. If its adherents differ, it is only in the methods and not in the end sought. It does not enjoin methods. There are many avenues leading to truth. The arc light sends out a myriad of rays but they all lead to one light.As Ralph W. Emerson wisely observes: “That which shows God within me fortifies me.That which shows him without me makes me a wart and wen.”There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same & to all the same. He who is once admitted to the right of reason is made a free man of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt , he may feel. What has befallen any man at any time, he can understand. Who hath access to the universal mind is a party to all that is or could be done, for this is the only sovereign agent.About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddhist nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead. Kurt VonnegutHE WHO LAUGHS MOST — LEARNS BEST.The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.A wonderful thing about true laughter isthat it just destroys any kind of system of diving people. John CleeseI've always been attracted to intelligent men. I can pick'em in a full room just like that.I don't care what age they are. Marlene DietrichWriting is rewriting and rethinking. John IrvingAll great people function from the heart.Here lies the heart. always remember think with it.Always remember to think with itand above all to judge with it.Ignacio ZuloagaKadir Nelson: We lean into our art to soothe ourselves,inform and inspire others to see, hear, feel and appreciate the beautiful parts of life.Sam Shepard understood the despair behind the protean transformation that the culture was undergoing — the mutations of psychic and physical shape that were necessary for Americans to survive the oppression of a nation at war both at home and abroad. John LahrSam Shepard was so richly imaginative, so trusting of his unconscious, that he could be reckless with his talent.To live without hope is to cease to live. Fyodor DostoevskyIn the particular is contained the universal. James JoyceSally Kirkland: My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasmand a kind of outrageousness in my expression.