Topic : Defining Your Authentic Self

Hello Teri, I am happy, with all knowledge has a creative and interesting individual writing them,  

many thanks for your many contributions.  In learning about ourself, ongoing, with many people of different ages, that are on-line, wisdom-of-the ages, (I was thinking about ripening selves) as yourself has a nice ring to it, I feel.  

  

Taemanai 

  

  

    

is to look at things, is to see the slopes that we have crossed, the rivers we allowed ourself (at least in getting there) to be swept down etc.  Are we are a better person for it?  If we are a little bit calmer, for example, if the same situation arises, we have not only recognised it, but we have improved immensely. 

  

Taemanai 

I'm not altogether pleased with the new format, I'm not sure where to go to when I come on-line. 

  

What I have or have not communicated and what I need to. 

  

I'll just say:  

 if being true to ourself, is when the skills we need are up to the challenge, and that includes emotional truths being expressed in an affective way, that our own inner truths includes enough factors so we have to share things, improve, to move forward and that to keep things that don't relate to ourself, hang on like a sloth, will only delay or confuse the issue,  

 it seems that the intuitive can work this out better than most, that does not have the same reliance on factual interpretation but a swift and affective appraisal of causes and most probable possibilities. 

  

Taemanai 

  

  

  

Ritehere, I was wondering about your nickname, for this site.  Everyone (enough so) knows that 'Taemanai' relates to perserverance in Japanese.   

  

I was thinking about the many roads and tracks you've travelled.  That each place is not there or past but 'ritehere', that nothing needs to be found but for the experienced walker, can be seen or worked out, like mountain peaks, by following contours etc.. 

  

  

Taemanai 

  

We read for personal journey foremost.  To carry as a pack, containing we already know but haven't yet progressed any further.  The relationship we have to a newer place. 

  

  

The map we have each created.  The 'X' where we think we are.  If we could communicate this, would people know who we are, and would not make assumptions or rely on getting lost there themselves.   

  

There is something to be said about opposites attract, as one cannot navigate North if there is no South. 

  

Taemanai 

  

  

moving levers, altering perspectives....  this (supposedly realistic quote) makes me think of 'Mr Squiggle' 

  

Taemanai 

 It's kind of daunting to pick a name for yourself. You don't want to seem too self important, or too self effacing. And since I "live" primarily on this board, I wanted a name that described where I'm at now in my life.
I had been practicing living in the moment, coming to understand the connectedness of everything and everybody.
For the first time in my life, I'm not agonising over the past, or worrying about the future.

I'm right here.

We can't lose what we don't have. 

(I'm thinking of freedom to live)  

  

  

That's all folks, 

  

Taemanai 

You're moving onwards, only way to go really! 

  

Taemanai