Yi 16: what has that divorce post done for Miss Wisconsin

that divorce post

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Yi 15: marathon 1: don't commit yet, start running and play it by feel

i have hoag/orange county '27 on my radar but i have decided that rather than commit to it, the better/wiser choice is to just start running and see how i feel after several months of consistency, to check in with the reality   - having alreasdfy done santa barbara '09 - of the endeavor.

question asked: what good that approach?

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Yi 14: Friday Night Crash as Catalyst

another Juan Courier debacle culminating in bruises and wasted saturday. BUT what i needed to stir me from this sloppy-stupid somnambulism. IF i follow-through on where i am now, awake and ready to Get My Shit Together. 

Hilary Barrett:

"You have committed yourself and made a transition. Even if the change so far is internal, a resolve formed or decision made, there is a sense in which everything is in place. Now you create success in small ways and in small things: you attend to details, working with what you've already decided or achieved. In following through, you stay loyal to your original reasons for making the crossing.

The Zhou forded the river and overthrew the Shang dynasty. As they established their rule, they had in mind how the Shang once received the Mandate of Heaven to replace a corrupt dynasty. Now the Shang had forfeited the Mandate and were ending in chaos, while the Zhou enjoyed fortunate beginnings. Might the story repeat itself? It's easier to create new, clear-cut patterns for living than to live by them.

It's not that what you have begun here must inevitably fall apart. Only if you feel as if you've 'arrived' already and let yourself come to a halt, then you lose your path and then it all falls apart. Work with what you've accomplished so far, and keep your momentum: keep on beginning."

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Legge: The third line, dynamic, suggests the case of Kao Tsung who attacked the Demon region, but was three years in subduing it. 

NOTES AND PARAPHRASES

DeKorne: In psychological terms, the Demon region is the unconscious psyche, and no new synthesis can take place therein until all of its autonomous complexes have been pacified and integrated. The will of the ego is the last line of defense against their constant pressure. Only one who has undertaken the Work can truly appreciate how exhausting it is -- a fact made more ominous by the realization that one can win most of the battles and still lose the war. 

When an individual in some contretemps discovers this primitive force alive within him, like a ruthless and cold-blooded daemon, he must find some method by which it can be transformed into a different kind of spirit, if he is to avoid a regression to a level of civilization far below his conscious standard.

M.E. Harding -- Psychic Energy

A. Conquer your demons -- the integration of unbalanced forces is a long and exhausting process.