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Punishment and Reward
Punishment and Reward
Holding back
Is punishment
Enough,
And nothing
Earns
This reward.
Acting out
Gains
A further wait,
And leaning in
Is
Leaning toward.
Taking off
Your clothes
Strips all defenses,
And giving in
Provides
Every advantage.
The end
Of resistance
Begins all favors.
Give yourself,
And let happen
What will happen,
And I will
Bind you
With the freedom
Of being mine
In the hollow
Of my soul.
Holding back
Is punishment
Enough,
And nothing
Earns
This reward.
Acting out
Gains
A further wait,
And leaning in
Is
Leaning toward.
Taking off
Your clothes
Strips all defenses,
And giving in
Provides
Every advantage.
The end
Of resistance
Begins all favors.
Give yourself,
And let happen
What will happen,
And I will
Bind you
With the freedom
Of being mine
In the hollow
Of my soul.
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Re. Punishment and Reward
14th Feb 2022 11:01pm
oof....
I'm sailing off into dreams of subspace, rewards, punishment and learning fully (and correctly) all that I ache for, in becoming free, indeed.
These lines.... oh these lines.
Beautiful work, RT....just beautiful.
"The end
Of resistance
Begins all favors.
Give yourself,
And let happen
What will happen,
And I will
Bind you
With the freedom
Of being mine
In the hollow
Of my soul."
🌹 - B
x
I'm sailing off into dreams of subspace, rewards, punishment and learning fully (and correctly) all that I ache for, in becoming free, indeed.
These lines.... oh these lines.
Beautiful work, RT....just beautiful.
"The end
Of resistance
Begins all favors.
Give yourself,
And let happen
What will happen,
And I will
Bind you
With the freedom
Of being mine
In the hollow
Of my soul."
🌹 - B
x
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Re: Re. Punishment and Reward
15th Feb 2022 00:15am
Thank you for your responsiveness....sometimes we have simply say it into existence....
I can only say my side.....
I can only say my side.....
Re. Punishment and Reward
15th Feb 2022 00:54am
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15th Feb 2022 2:04am
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15th Feb 2022 2:04am
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15th Feb 2022 2:16am
Re: Re. Punishment and Reward
15th Feb 2022 9:49am
I think we all have our resonances....those colors, sounds, environments, characteristics that remind us of our inner comforts, our home in mind.
Milton talked about that original sense of home as Paradise Lost. Some people say we can never go home again.
I think, rather, that we are born into an original ideal sense of who we are within ourselves.
We resonate with our environment through emotional security, IMHO.
In this we, we gravitate, levitate, mature into ourselves, sooner or later by learning to disregard the irrelevant. We find ourselves by a sort of symbolic echo location.
Milton called this Paradise Regained, but I think of it as cleaning house emotionally. Detached awareness. Becoming ourselves. Truly, a palace to be.
Milton talked about that original sense of home as Paradise Lost. Some people say we can never go home again.
I think, rather, that we are born into an original ideal sense of who we are within ourselves.
We resonate with our environment through emotional security, IMHO.
In this we, we gravitate, levitate, mature into ourselves, sooner or later by learning to disregard the irrelevant. We find ourselves by a sort of symbolic echo location.
Milton called this Paradise Regained, but I think of it as cleaning house emotionally. Detached awareness. Becoming ourselves. Truly, a palace to be.
Re: Re. Punishment and Reward
15th Feb 2022 11:43am
that's a thoughtful response sir - I sometimes feel my own responses rather facile - smiles sheepishly
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Re: Re. Punishment and Reward
15th Feb 2022 12:17pm
The sum total of all human vectors will forever more be bounded by its viewer.
The sum total of all vectors may be a reality that dwarfs all human vectors.
Gurdjeiff said that we are unable to measure all the factors that make up the mass of the atom, and this is why atomic weight does not follow an arithmetic progression, for example its utilitarian value in the universe.
Facile is the best any of us can do. Quantum mechanics is showing us that the mere measuring of something changes its structure in relationship to us. Heisenberg has put us forever at arm's length away from that absolute direct truth we seek.
Maybe a general field theory will take reverse engineering the quantum equations to tell us how Newton got it wrong.
We're all in that same human boat. For me, the best I can do is to try not to judge and so use only my own peace of mind to balance out life's equations.
We dominate our minds by submitting to our hearts perhaps.
The sum total of all vectors may be a reality that dwarfs all human vectors.
Gurdjeiff said that we are unable to measure all the factors that make up the mass of the atom, and this is why atomic weight does not follow an arithmetic progression, for example its utilitarian value in the universe.
Facile is the best any of us can do. Quantum mechanics is showing us that the mere measuring of something changes its structure in relationship to us. Heisenberg has put us forever at arm's length away from that absolute direct truth we seek.
Maybe a general field theory will take reverse engineering the quantum equations to tell us how Newton got it wrong.
We're all in that same human boat. For me, the best I can do is to try not to judge and so use only my own peace of mind to balance out life's equations.
We dominate our minds by submitting to our hearts perhaps.
Re: Re. Punishment and Reward
15th Feb 2022 10:25pm
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16th Feb 2022 00:33am