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guests
impulses
strangers
responding
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Before I discuss our main material, I have a few comments regarding strangers.
You might make a small sign: “Beloved stranger: we are working. Please do not disturb us.” You could add to that “Please write a note,” and buy yourselves one of those contraptions for your door. (A mailbox?) Or you might decide yourselves upon some hour of the day or evening when such a guest would be least bothersome. You could decide never to see a guest during the day, for example, and inform such people to come back at such and such a time.
You could decide to see such people at lunch hour, and no other time, and put that in your note: “Come back at noon.” You could, therefore, make several different kinds of decisions that would give you a free mind for large portions of the time. You would not be rejecting guests at the door, per se, but telling them to return at such and such an hour, or to leave a note. You could compose several such signs, so that one might read: “We are not seeing any strangers today at all,” but there are many variations that you could settle for.
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