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  • November 28, 2013 at 1:13 pm #45925
    Meg Hartley
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    I wrote a bit about how others reflect back our very own traits, good or bad-and how we can use this truth.

    It’s at http://www.HalcyonMusings.com, the first one!

    Happy happy turkey day, I’m grateful for others that strive to become their best (you!)

    November 28, 2013 at 4:06 pm #45926
    Meg Hartley
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    It’s been pointed out to me in another forum that this is inappropriate posting! What I failed to say is:

    Have you experienced this? How has it affected you? My writing about it was instigated by my being very upset after I gave a homeless fellow a buck and he said, “that’s all?”. I overreacted, remembered Jung’s quote, and realized I’ve been asking too much of others. Like posting sans discussion in a forum, but elsewhere as well. D’oh!

    • This reply was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by Meg Hartley.
    February 6, 2014 at 2:27 pm #50460
    Mark
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    Hi Halcyon,
    On your upset with the homeless guy/gal, I can relate on feeling good and magnanimous about myself for doing such a good deed then being shot down for being so full of myself. I use to volunteer for this group that helped homeless people and one of the main tenets was to connect with them person-to-person. It was not so much anonymously giving out food and clothing but to really engage in authentic dialog to understand their lives as if they were real people. … duh. I really got a lot of that lesson of looking at these people, not as “other” but as ourselves.

    Metta,
    Mark

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