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I'm glad you are finding success! We are all children and like

children we need our show and tell. It's apart of learning how to

share and learning how to receive and support all at once. I love it

when people state what they are about to do. I remember going on a

vision quest all by myself 660 miles away from anywhere I had been

before. I told a few people, yogi-shamans, and they kept 'vigil' for

me while out there on my own. How supportive it was to go out into

the middle of nowhere for several days knowing they were thinking of

me.

 

I remember teaching drama my senior year in high school. The teacher

was grading english papers so she put me in charge. The hardest part

was not teaching the acting, but teaching the exchange of performer

and audience. Some of the students in the audience would belch

loudly or talk during a performance and it was a process, but at the

end of the school year they learned a great deal about being a

supportive audience and a performer. I've seen the same dynamic is

spiritual communities. One person gets jealous or whatever and

decides to belch at someones sadhana or they ignore in order to not

support. Eventually we all learn how to support one another even if

in the beginning we didn't know how. Also as we get to know one

another, we will know how to support each person differently. Like

you Latha Nanda, have had enough insight to know what is important to

me as well as other Ananada's out there in this chat room who don't

post

but will send loving emails in support of my process. I cherish that,

and I would love to support others that way. So when I hear of people

asking for support it reminds me of the performer wanting applause or

the child in show and tell. It teaches us how to support instead of

judge.

 

I'm grateful for the beauty you bring to this chat room and patience:)

Thanks for the internet poem. It couldn't be more true.

 

Namaste,

KellyLatha Nanda <lathananda > wrote:

To all those that blessed my sankalpa - my Pranams and heartfelt

thanks to you. Day 2 went by with success.I was feeling a bit awkward

asking for your good wishes and blessings - that is because I know

some of you personally and was feeling " What if so-and-so thinks I

am being cute - asking for blessings. What if they think 'Why cant

she just be quiet and do her sankalpa ?' "Then I calmed myself down -

Swami has done it and so I did it - end of story. And also to

paraphrase my favorite scientist Dr. Feynman "What do I care what

other people think?" . Apparently a lot.In someways it is a lot

easier when the recipients are anonymous, I dont know you from the

next guy or gal I meet. You could be the person that I cut while

driving down the street, it doesna matter.I saw this cute verse on

the

web about online friendships and wanted to pass it on. Have a nice

day.-----------------------My

acknowledgement and thanks to the unknown author.We sit and we type

and we stare at our screens. We all have to wonder, what this

possibly means. We chat with each other, we share all our woes, Small

groups we do form and gang up on our foes. We wait for somebody to

type out our name, We want recognition and offer the same. We give

kisses and hugs and sometimes we flirt, In rooms we chat deeply and

reveal why we hurt. We form friendships but why is a thing we don't

know, Though most often flounder some will flourish and grow. Why is

it that on screen, we can all be so bold, Telling our secrets that

have never been told? Why is it we share those deep thoughts in our

mind With those we can't see, as though we were blind? The answer is

simple, it's as clear as a

bell. We all have our problems and need someone to tell. We can't tell

"real" people, but tell someone we must So we turn to the 'puter, and

to those we can trust. Even though it is crazy, the truth still

remains, These are friends without faces and with odd little

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