Re: Addiction and it’s impact on Desire
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 9:09 am
Hi Marjorie,
Honestly, that post to Rita was a genuine response to real addictions and demands coming from Rita to the world about her art that she even lists there and was expressing confusion about. So, I'm not really getting what it has to do with her having success and me not? If that is what you are saying? Because I don't feel that is true really to begin with nor was that at all a feeling in me about her history with her art. It was about her emotions about her gift.
To me, what I was talking about doesn't have to do with material success. I don't feel anything in comparison to Rita's statements about any of that...what I was writing to and addressing with her has to do with success in terms of growing to look at our addictions in this area. And she shared confusions about that that I was speaking to.
I also do not know why your referenced that other thread. It seems really misplaced to me. And those were not feelings I felt at all in relationship to Rita.
I hear what you are saying about Rita having had some worldly “success” with her art...though she is struggling there currently...but that is not what I was talking about. Because outward success with a lot of addictions and demands and lack of accountability remaining in our souls about our passions and gifts is not success on the levels I am looking toward with my own art and passions. So to me these are separate issues. And I was addressing the soul level issues of passions, addictions and personal responsibility and accountability. Which is different to me than the ups and downs of businesses.
I have had success in my art too. So it is not about me seeing someone's “success” and projecting my injuries onto her out of jealously or comparison which I think you are saying in your statements about me? It is about discussing some of the other issues going on there with Rita that I felt and offered some input on and I just used some of the details of my personal life to share as an illustration. As I did in the post to Abram. Just a willingness to share deeper things (including personal details) that I feel now is perhaps not loving for me to do in these interactions in some ways. There are other people who gain from that and find it helpful but it seems to be causing problems in some of these forum exchanges. And, this could just be the wrong place for me to be sharing details on that level.
Anyway, this seems to be an issue for me to look at. Sharing the details of my life is leading to confusion rather than helping to clarify things in certain exchanges here.
So, for that I apologize. I think I'll stick to writing elsewhere. Rather than try to share more here for now. I feel like my sharing on the forum is not loving in ways that I don't quite understand. And there is no need for me to be doing this. I just wanted to share here and there if I felt it could assist people.
But, this is not feeling like that is the case here. There seems to be a mismatch of some kind...where wires are crossing.
So, I'll leave it there.
Maureen
Honestly, that post to Rita was a genuine response to real addictions and demands coming from Rita to the world about her art that she even lists there and was expressing confusion about. So, I'm not really getting what it has to do with her having success and me not? If that is what you are saying? Because I don't feel that is true really to begin with nor was that at all a feeling in me about her history with her art. It was about her emotions about her gift.
To me, what I was talking about doesn't have to do with material success. I don't feel anything in comparison to Rita's statements about any of that...what I was writing to and addressing with her has to do with success in terms of growing to look at our addictions in this area. And she shared confusions about that that I was speaking to.
I also do not know why your referenced that other thread. It seems really misplaced to me. And those were not feelings I felt at all in relationship to Rita.
I hear what you are saying about Rita having had some worldly “success” with her art...though she is struggling there currently...but that is not what I was talking about. Because outward success with a lot of addictions and demands and lack of accountability remaining in our souls about our passions and gifts is not success on the levels I am looking toward with my own art and passions. So to me these are separate issues. And I was addressing the soul level issues of passions, addictions and personal responsibility and accountability. Which is different to me than the ups and downs of businesses.
I have had success in my art too. So it is not about me seeing someone's “success” and projecting my injuries onto her out of jealously or comparison which I think you are saying in your statements about me? It is about discussing some of the other issues going on there with Rita that I felt and offered some input on and I just used some of the details of my personal life to share as an illustration. As I did in the post to Abram. Just a willingness to share deeper things (including personal details) that I feel now is perhaps not loving for me to do in these interactions in some ways. There are other people who gain from that and find it helpful but it seems to be causing problems in some of these forum exchanges. And, this could just be the wrong place for me to be sharing details on that level.
Anyway, this seems to be an issue for me to look at. Sharing the details of my life is leading to confusion rather than helping to clarify things in certain exchanges here.
So, for that I apologize. I think I'll stick to writing elsewhere. Rather than try to share more here for now. I feel like my sharing on the forum is not loving in ways that I don't quite understand. And there is no need for me to be doing this. I just wanted to share here and there if I felt it could assist people.
But, this is not feeling like that is the case here. There seems to be a mismatch of some kind...where wires are crossing.
So, I'll leave it there.
Maureen