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By Allen L Roland (about the author)
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"And from delight are all things born and to delight shall all things return: " Taittiriya Upanishad III.6
I have always seen my life as a quest versus a struggle ~ a quest to return to the original joy and delight I knew as a child.
A quest to own and share something I deeply felt as a young boy ~ a deep feeling of love, joy and delight as well as the knowledge of something that I longed to eventually share with the world.
A great secret that everyone knows ~ if they will but fully surrender to love .
But first I had to survive my childhood Rite Of Passage which was filled with adventure and self-discovery.
Of course, there was heartache too ~ but the joy was so much deeper.
I had to survive ( like some of us ) mothers who smoked and drank while they carried us .
Baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
Wearing no seat belts or air bags when riding in an automobile.
Drinking water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
Sharing soft drinks with all my friends ~ from one bottle and we all lived .
Eating cupcakes, bread and peanut butter and drinking vanilla cokes but never getting overweight because we were always playing outside.
Leaving home in the morning and playing all day and only coming back when the streetlights came on.
No one could reach me all day and that was O.K. ~ the earth still turned and everything was fine.
I would spend hours with my friends building go-carts out of scraps of wood and baby carriage tires and then ride them down steep hills . We would crash many times but we all survived.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
Become a Fan (17 fans) -- Page 1 of 3 page(s)
I have always seen my life as a quest versus a struggle ~ a quest to return to the original joy and delight I knew as a child.
A quest to own and share something I deeply felt as a young boy ~ a deep feeling of love, joy and delight as well as the knowledge of something that I longed to eventually share with the world.
A great secret that everyone knows ~ if they will but fully surrender to love .
But first I had to survive my childhood Rite Of Passage which was filled with adventure and self-discovery.
Of course, there was heartache too ~ but the joy was so much deeper.
I had to survive ( like some of us ) mothers who smoked and drank while they carried us .
Baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
Wearing no seat belts or air bags when riding in an automobile.
Drinking water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
Sharing soft drinks with all my friends ~ from one bottle and we all lived .
Eating cupcakes, bread and peanut butter and drinking vanilla cokes but never getting overweight because we were always playing outside.
Leaving home in the morning and playing all day and only coming back when the streetlights came on.
No one could reach me all day and that was O.K. ~ the earth still turned and everything was fine.
I would spend hours with my friends building go-carts out of scraps of wood and baby carriage tires and then ride them down steep hills . We would crash many times but we all survived.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
http://www.allenroland.com
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website more...)
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