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first question:  Listening to you in the discourse, it is the
pauses, the gaps, between two sentences, two words, that roll in
my ears like thunder, tearing me open and tearing me apart. I am
being taken to a space beyond tears or laughter by your silence.
What is happening to me?  I am happening to you. allow it.
Sometimes it will be frightening, scary, because you will be
going into spaces you are not acquainted with.  You will be
moving beyond yourself. You will be entering into the unknown.
And the unknown is always frightening. The new always creates
great fear. With the old, one feels perfectly comfortable. The
old always feels cozy, snug. With the new, you have to learn
again. With the new you have to become a child again. The new
happens only to those who are ready to become children again and
again and again - because the old knowledge, the old experience,
the old life, will have no meaning in the new. It will be
irrelevant. You will su