Having said that…you are so right about how we stifle our emotions. We are conditioned to as you also point out. We let out what we really feel at our own peril we fear. “What will they think?”, “I must be muted to get along.” Yes, we are automatons to a great extent and it feels like 1984.

If only we could really know what others are thinking in terms of our own subjective realities. Perhaps we would discover that thoughts about non-duality and illusion are percolating in places we least expect it. Well, it’s nice to think that anyway.

Good and bad we are all one on the most basic boiled down level. Just One - having an expression that is revealed in the totality of it all.

So, if that’s all there is my friend, then let’s keep dancing, let’s break out the booze and have a ball - if thats all there is…and, let’s get emotionally naked and have some fun! (Some will be allowed to get physically naked as well)

I am a new reader from TomStine.com just so you know - I understand why he added this blog to his list.

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Being emotionally naked can be such a scary thing. I am working on it although so far all I’ve got it maybe showing my “wrist” to the people closest to me.

But when I do have moments where I’m out there, bare, it’s liberating and the pleasant surprise would be the connection it can bring within myself and a loved one who then understands.. or always did but I never gave them a chance to show me

excellent piece!

Thanks so much =)

Kenton

It truly is a challenge — we are taught so fully that our emotions mustn’t emerge unless it’s during specially moderated situations.
Your presence here is very valued, and I’d like to thank you for the wonderful compliments.

Fondly,
Kenton

Blending humor and truth, as always, my friend. Well done!

=) Kenton

I’m so glad that you’ve made a landing here. A thanks to Tom Stine for being integral in crossing our paths. I’m pleased that you found something in this article. I’ve stopped by your site and am excited to explore more — my favorite personal development sites are ones in which people have the courage to share their stories, their losses, their growth, and their discoveries about life. I think this is one of the most fabulous aspects of the blog movement — a chance for all of us to have a deeply personal ‘peek’ into the lives of people from around the world. Thanks for being one of the people who has become a part of this sharing.

Love,
Kenton

I don’t think I’m alone, but I do think there are some folks more prone to this sea of emotion. I suppose learning how to swim at an early age helped me a little. If nothing else but to navigate. I do however wish emotion had been and would be honored. It can sometimes be that that is forbidden, misunderstood and feared, as you said.

And there is always that very prickly feeling just beneath the clothes of my emotion, very often screaming just say it already! The metaphor couldn’t be more apt.

Glad to be visiting again. Hope you and your lovely wife are reclaiming the spring feelings of the days upon us.

Certainly, one can approach things from many perspectives, and this is a very healthy perspective to approach nakedness and truth. I think I often stare myself blind at the ‘goal’ (knowing there is no goal, but still..), saying to myself ‘when I’m there, I’ll be naked, radiant, all the time’. I find this type of reasoning, too, to be eminating from the Lesser self..

You point to a middle way. Neither the search for wisdom followed by manifestation of wisdom, nor the manifestation of wisdom followed by the gaining of wisdom, but rather you show, the gaining and manifestating is inseparable. One does not proceed the other.

Anyway, I’m loosing train of thought here:

thank you Kenton!

Thanks for the happy spring wishes — we have indeed been out, spending lots of time in the woods and playing with our horses.

Your writing adds a wonderful perspective to this — we’re certainly in a challenging situation when the majority of our culture encourages us to hide and fear our emotions. How freeing when we shake loose!

It’s so good to hear from you again =)

Sweetwater,

Kenton

In each paragraph you acknowledge and bring to light the different forces with which we grapple when we confront our emotions — the fear, the reaching for a goal we’ll never reach, and the curious non-dualism which makes all this confusion clear.

Sweetwater,
Kenton

Not sure how I found this blog, but I like it! Great stuff, keep it up Kenton.

Happy to have you visiting.

Sweetwater,

Kenton