http://www.open-secrets.com/perceptions/ego-defenses/ Exploring the Obvious Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:40:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.open-secrets.com/perceptions/ego-defenses/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Lou Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:19:28 +0000 http://www.open-secrets.com/27/ego-defenses/#comment-114 A gardener once asked a deeply buried soul, "what do you want?" "I want to know what I am. I've always been confused about that." She was innocent to the layers of dirt, leaves, debris that defended her place in the garden. It all seemed a necessary part of her existence. The gardener cared, winds blew, storms, mighty storms rained and snowed, the sun shone, more seasons came and went. Just when she concluded, I'll never know what I am. She was awakened one night to the intimately impersonal point of her existence. She was free to be a daffodil, a tulip, driftwood or rock. She was free to be anything but mostly she was just free to be. A gardener once asked a deeply buried soul, “what do you want?”
“I want to know what I am. I’ve always been confused about that.” She was innocent to the layers of dirt, leaves, debris that defended her place in the garden. It all seemed a necessary part of her existence. The gardener cared, winds blew, storms, mighty storms rained and snowed, the sun shone, more seasons came and went. Just when she concluded, I’ll never know what I am. She was awakened one night to the intimately impersonal point of her existence. She was free to be a daffodil, a tulip, driftwood or rock. She was free to be anything but mostly she was just free to be.

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