Glory & Storytelling

kenoli Oleari kenoli at igc.org
Mon Jan 28 10:28:34 PST 2002


Yes.  The power of being fully speaking our actual experience and how
much we compromise that -- think it inappropriate, or somesuch -- and
the cost of doing that, even as we know the power and significant
positive consequences of "telling the truth".  When we can be truly
in alignment with our experience and speak it (this seems to be an
important step) we truly bring the universe in alignment with
ourselves.  I suppose the truth is that we are always in alignment
and only now and then choose to open to it.

Ah, the pain of spending so much time in hiding.

Kenoli

>    Glory, if you want another view I didn't take it as
>a personal letter. I thought it was great. To me it
>just seemed to be the story that you needed to tell at
>that moment. The ones with those kind of meaning and
>power are the ones we should all somehow be able to
>tell...
>    ...and it's just so often that we don't...because
>the Story is never the 'stories' we've trained
>ourselves so well to tell...but it is the one that we
>always carry, simply here in each moment. We ourselves
>are that greatest Story each moment but just seem so
>confused about telling, or knowing how to.
>    Ah, to be true those moments, to be able to listen,
>to just simply Live and Be the Story we know has to
>told.
>    But what a struggle and pain it so often ends up
>being, yes, mainly for words...and so we have our
>poets...and storytellers...
>          ...that each ONE OF US IS!
>    So lead the way girl!
>
>    I like that saying about the Tao that seems to also
>apply to the Story...the Story (the Tao) that you
>think you can tell is not the true story (Tao).
>    Like the Tao, the Story that needs to be told is
>always one step ahead of what our minds perceive, or
>would like it to be. All we can hope as storytellers
>is, also be storylisteners, surrender ourselves to the
>moment, surrender our plans and what we think (one of
>the OS principles) and just embrace more fully who we
>already are.
>    The Story (our Life) is right here, no need to make
>it anything more, something bigger or other than,
>accept it the way it is and chooses to come out.
>
>    Isn't that OS? There is nothing for us as
>practitioners to do except to listen for the space and
>be that space, be in our moment...accept and Be who
>need to be, not a lot of explaining (which a lot of
>'telling stories' and putting a spin on things ends up
>being these days).
>
>       all the best,
>            Michael.
>
>
>
>Date:    Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:32:34 -0500
>From:    Glory Ressler <on.the.edge at sympatico.ca>
>Subject: Re: ERROR!  Please delete my last message
>
>Thank you Florian. And let me take this opportunity to
>let everyone know that the story continues... no
>mistakes - 'whatever happens...'  has been the result.
>
>A self-made opportunity to trust the spacious universe
>and all of you!
>For all of you:
>Thanks for deleting.
>Thanks for peeking :-)
>Thanks for reading before knowing to delete.
>Thanks for the new (and less egocentric) perspective.
>Thanks for responding so compassionately. I needed it
>and still do.
>Don't we all need each other so profoundly?
>
>with love and gratitude,
>glory
>
>florian fischer wrote:
>
>>  don¥t worry glory i, for example, deleted it promply
>without reading. florian
>>
>>  Glory Ressler schrieb:
>>
>>>  Everyone,
>>>  I am mortified to realize that I just sent a
>private email intended for Chris Weaver to the entire
>list!!! I am horrified that I clogged this bandwidth
>with such a personal sharing!
>>>  Please delete... Geez, I feel incredibly exposed
>and vulnerable!
>>>  best,
>>>  glory
>>>  'If it isn't a happy ending, our story isn't over yet.'
>
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