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Old 01-11-2011, 09:52 AM   #3
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Both the story and that website are fascinating to read. I completely understand the social worker's actions. If I weren't feeling threatened or too scared, I would have done the same thing.

Yesterday, someone I work with told me that she thinks I'm the "nicest person" she's ever met. Really?? I am nice. I'm polite, thoughtful, and all of that. But, I'm definitely not the nicest person anyone has ever met. I can be impatient, I'm fairly lazy, and I can be exceedingly critical. I harbor some very dark thoughts about some people which I consider not so nice since I do believe that thought creates reality in the physical universe.

In truth, I don't think as highly of my co-worker, so I don't really trust her saying that. I have found that when I have a perception of someone, they are likely to have a mirroring perception of me. So, I think she's kind of dishonest and unethical. In most situations, without me trying to do anything but "be nice," a person like that would end up not liking me, thinking of me as an annoying goody-two-shoes. It just happens like that. Her declaration that I'm the nicest person she's ever met in her 50 plus years doesn't ring true for me.

All of the discussion about spiritual connectedness, I do feel and have experienced. I am happiest and my best self when I'm able to tap into that in my life. It happens easiest when I'm around like-minded people, which, unfortunately, doesn't happen as often these days.
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And suddenly we see
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and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

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