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Learning From Loss

The hardest losses are those too late to repair what has been win/win time lost to despair Just as love cannot co-arise where fear grows fully uprisen a prison predicting anger's nearby impetuously apprised surprise. So too, Freedom cannot thrive where addiction has hard helped us feel we are not softly worthy to survive "Loser" labelled struggles with addiction cannot feel free of affliction nor can giving in to addiction's short-term affections, powers to feel escape from personal and communal, economic and political, monocultural and monotheistic OverPowers Social judgment, blame and shame, co-detachment non-communication developing hard stiffly cold silent screaming excommunication Depressing loneliness isolation self-ostracization issues win/lose closeted fear-based shame defenses against Old School GoldenRule loss of co-invested love offenses Against spirited natural nondualistic redemptions restorations of win/win historical Sun nurturing light and Earth nutritioning power regenerating EarthTribe indigenously sacred regenerations.

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