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You magnify the differences of culture as a background and idea instead of realizing that you are both human beings embarked on a magnificent adventure. Travelers in a space and time that you have both created. Actors wearing different masks, but in a play that you have both created.
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([Gert:] “Is this a force that I personally feel or our cultural or this physical universe that we have created?”)
It is largely cultural in your particular environment. Now, in some native cultures this is not true, but you are learning to encourage spontaneity, and yet within certain areas there must be a concentration of abilities in the physical line and in this extent you are a teacher and you are learning as you teach them. You also experience their own frustrations, and this makes you angry. When you were a child you could be angry at the parent. When you are a parent you can feel the child’s anger but you do not know what to do. When you are a child you can blame the parent. When you are a parent there is no one to blame. Therefore, you are forced to ask about the nature of reality. You are angry because you do not understand, as yet, the nature of reality and you have no answers but you can learn the proper questions. You can learn to experience again that spontaneity and to encourage it.
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