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Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.
-Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.
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In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. we can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.
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