Comments on: Eboo Patel and Dorothy Day http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2009/05/09/eboo-patel-and-dorothy-day/ A Voice for Tikkun Olam (healing the world) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:04:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Belden http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2009/05/09/eboo-patel-and-dorothy-day/comment-page-1/#comment-431 Dave Belden Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:31:27 +0000 http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/?p=225#comment-431 Thank you, Yoga Clothes. Because I wrote this post I got your reply as an email, but I couldn't recall what it was a reply to (until I hit the link and came here). So I first read it as a direct statement to me, Dave. I thought: wow, someone really thinks I need to give myself some empathy--is it that obvious that I need to, have I been putting myself down in some way on the blog? Fact is, for various reasons I have been more spiritually depleted this year than I can recall being since my early twenties, so it's appropriate. Another part of me was happy: this person has a high opinion of me! Then I got here and thought, oh, this is a general statement to everyone! I read general statements like this to everyone all the time in my job at Tikkun (we get a lot of spiritual writing sent to us). But it was nice for a moment to actually experience one of them as addressed to me personally. It got through to me when those others didn't. I'm sure you meant it to, you hoped everyone would read it equally personally. I just happened to. You too, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Thank you, Yoga Clothes. Because I wrote this post I got your reply as an email, but I couldn’t recall what it was a reply to (until I hit the link and came here). So I first read it as a direct statement to me, Dave. I thought: wow, someone really thinks I need to give myself some empathy–is it that obvious that I need to, have I been putting myself down in some way on the blog? Fact is, for various reasons I have been more spiritually depleted this year than I can recall being since my early twenties, so it’s appropriate. Another part of me was happy: this person has a high opinion of me!

Then I got here and thought, oh, this is a general statement to everyone! I read general statements like this to everyone all the time in my job at Tikkun (we get a lot of spiritual writing sent to us). But it was nice for a moment to actually experience one of them as addressed to me personally. It got through to me when those others didn’t. I’m sure you meant it to, you hoped everyone would read it equally personally. I just happened to.

You too, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

]]> By: yoga clothes http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2009/05/09/eboo-patel-and-dorothy-day/comment-page-1/#comment-427 yoga clothes Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:05:07 +0000 http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/?p=225#comment-427 You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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