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What You Take

What we take without asking first, thanking second, what is rightfully our property, our valuables, our commodities and loves. Yet we also take what we are too ashamed to ask for, then thank for receiving selfless hand to open hand, or hate for selfish lack of yes, or resent negotiating maybes or strings attached further growing far more than your rightful share of shame. Shame, engaging high risk acquisition choices rather than trusting Earth's grace, cooperative evolution of relationships between those who have and those who want to live healthier, without shame and guilt for addictive needs, attractions, aversions from others' shame and guilt offerings, final intimate NO in face of your hungry appetite for self-regenerative identity, less shame, absence of guilt for having become who you are, for not having become as you more lovingly intended yet. When did you start asking first if I want to make our bed together? Right after I took your breath away with I would rather do it myself. Right before I froze your love because you don't do it right. When we take love without first asking fertile thanks rebounding back, we grow shame for guilty needs squeezing out what healthy love could otherwise breathe in. What Ego takes without asking Eco string attaches Yang to Yin Left to Right to LeftRight EcoConsensousness, asking Ego's untimely Death first, thanking Eco's holonic prime-evolutionary life, second.

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