On being put into a box

I think many of us on spiritual paths have had this experience.

Interesting, because my German grandmother gave me a china (usually Dresden) box every Christmas when I was growing up. I still have all these things up on shelves. What else would I do with them? Well, for one thing, I will start to look at them as metaphors, thanks to your post. ;)

Will find it and post here when I get a chance. Just read it last night and laughed out loud. It's the crux of his new book by the same name.

and will insist that you never have any other boxes other than that box.

My life motto is "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself." - Richard Bach

Therefore, forcing myself to stay in that box will never work. I guess the lesson is theirs to learn in that situation. It's sad when it happens though.

I'm trying to be authentic.

:hug:

:pals:

:loveya:

which is my soul friend and that is different. We're here to open our hearts to the universe and to be free in the spiritual sense of the word.

:loveya::pals::hug: right back at you my dear IHAD

What an honor you have bestowed on me, WhiteTara; I am deeply touched. :)

Thank you for being "you", my friend.


:loveya:

I wouldn't be White Tara without you!:loveya:

I've thought of what you wrote off and on for a few days now. I have lost friends and had to leave social situations because I was way to squirmy to stay in the box I was presented with. Squirmy people are apparently difficult to deal with. It seems to be a running theme in my life, what to do with all these boxes I have stacking up? I've been tripping over them for YEARS.

Or maybe I have difficulties communicating with people who have climbed into a box they were given and closed the top so tight that that I have to scream to be heard. I walk away in the end because they just can't make out a thing I am saying. Sigh.