Wendy K. Laidlaw
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You think it's my friend.
But he's actually expressing what we're all feeling.
We're all screaming and we're all, in a sense, violent because we have experienced the violence that violates our sense of self.
I mean, that would be the psychological breakdown.
Oh yeah, it hit home.
Yeah, and it wasn't an idea.
It was this flow of words.
So there was another thing about it, which it came out in paragraphs, sentences in paragraphs, no hesitation, no pauses.
It came out like I was playing the drum.
It came out with its own rhythm, and that's part of why it was so compelling.
So there it was in like a 10-minute adventure, a drama, which was life and death.
So there was another message was what's going to save me in this life is stories.
And you can extract from that is when a person aligns with their genius, they found that not only the way they are intended to live, but the thing that will save them from dying in an improper way or an improper way.
Because along the way we die, that's an old Celtic idea, right?
Death is the middle of a long life.
There's an old Celtic proverb.
And what it means is that, and Rumi, the poet, the ecstatic poet, says, die before you die.
And what it means is a little death before you get to big death.
And the little deaths are the deaths of the ego.
Yeah, and in that little story, I know my ego departed.