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Difficult Discernment

We were discussing a line between reasonable compromise and unconscionable denial in this time of rapidly escalating fragmentation When I thought I heard a raw spot deepened and widened by dissonant history of disagreement, antagonistic feelings about noetic consciousness of past pathological bad climate events. Yet when I ask how you feel about how we are responding to your position, story, exposition, entrenched in anxious missed communication opportunities to share your own excitement, You respond by blaming yourself for not making your experience clear quickly enough given our limited time for co-invested commitment. Is that your raw spot? Our limited consciousness about raw and bleeding climates of mortal turmoil metaphysically remembered through past regenerations/degenerations of limited time, inevitable demise of relationship currently valued by investment felt in a more win/win than win/lose history of personal communication, communion, mutually compassionate understanding feelings of safe yet free dialogue between appreciative teachers who are first curious and compassionate listeners, Listeners to now, co-presence of ancient raw and therapeutic places for terror and nurture, for replanting and reharvesting, for teaching and listening, for articulating painful memory and reflecting on therapeutic future response, for win/lose plots within win/win commitment spots, for curious thoughts and feelings of emergent integrity, experiential and yet re-membering co-presently teaching here with active listening now for past and future emotional voices, some with, and many without, full consciousness of responsive choices For discussing discernment between reasonable win/lose climates of compromise and unconscionable denial of life impeaching raw spots in this time of rapidly escalating fragmentation, where inclusive vulnerability would better seek and find integrity.

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