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You didn’t freeze because you’re broken.

You didn’t fawn because you’re weak.

You didn’t run because you’re a coward.

You didn’t fight because you’re dangerous.

You did all of that because your nervous system is a sorcerer . An ancient spellcaster encoding protection into every muscle, breath, and reflex.

This isn’t dysfunction.

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The two aspects of holding—contact and space, attunement and letting be—correspond to the two core qualities of love, warmth and openness, that are native to our being. Warmth is our natural impulse to reach outside ourselves, touch, and make contact, to welcome, embrace, and take delight in. Openness is our capacity to let be, to allow, to let in

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Sufism often describes the relationship between God and Muhammad in terms of the relationship between the sun and the moon, in that the latter merely reflects the light of the former. The sun expresses power; it is creative. The moon expresses beauty; it is responsive. Thus, according to Inayat Khan, “the one who gives [God’s] Message gives God’s

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