On the discomfort of growth — by Alice Walker

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On the discomfort of growth — by Alice Walker

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"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger than we were before.

Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant.

But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be... for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed." — Alice Walker


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Thank you for this Welles! It helps to calm the ole heart as I am sometimes overwhelmed down here with all the "growth" :) being imparted on me.

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Sandy wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:39 pm I am sometimes overwhelmed down here with all the "growth" :) being imparted on me.

Always remember that 'growth' is just gross with a lisp.


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Always remember that 'growth' is just gross with a lisp.

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Thank you for the chuckle this morning! I will try to remember that, Welles. LOL

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Welles,
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And Spirit whispered, "There are no limits."

We are akin to the aspen forests, seemingly separated but in actuality, one organism.
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