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<\/a>is to bear conflict with calmness.\u00a0 It is the realization that life, day to day, moment by moment, is changing.\u00a0 The only experience in life that is predictable is that it is unpredictable.\u00a0 Everything comes and goes. Within every beginning is its ending.\u00a0 And we, who hold on to constancy with dear life so we can have some sense of being in control, are called upon to develop an appreciation and acceptance of change in our lives a a fundamental characteristic of life.\u00a0 My assumptions about others intentions are not necessarily correct.\u00a0 And to live life as an art is to pause and consider the following:\u00a0 our assumptions of course seem real to us because they are our own creations.\u00a0 Whether they are correct or\u00a0 not is, actually, coincidence.\u00a0 It is always best to check out our assumptions with another.\u00a0 Time and again, if we nurture patience and strength to do this, we will be amazed at what we find that we did not know; we will be amazed at what we see that we did not see was there to see!\u00a0 It may do our hearts good to reflect on the words of the poet Rilke, \u201c\u201cBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.\u201d<\/p>\nJoyce Lynne Juster, M.A., LP\u00a0 copyright @2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
is when another\u2019s needs and wants are as precious and important to you as your own.\u00a0 Not more important than your own because then your importance is diminished in your own eyes and in the eyes of your partner (how you treat yourself is how your partner may likely treat you).\u00a0 Not less important than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,10,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-living","category-articles","category-emotions","category-life-lessons","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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is when another\u2019s needs and wants are as precious and important to you as your own.\u00a0 Not more important than your own because then your importance is diminished in your own eyes and in the eyes of your partner (how you treat yourself is how your partner may likely treat you).\u00a0 Not less important than your own because that leads to being dismissive of the importance of your partner in your life.\u00a0 It is when we refuse to use anything from the past against another in the present. We refuse the impulse to use another\u2019s vulnerability against, leaving them open to feeling shame or worse yet, regret that they confided in another.<\/p>\n