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\"\"<\/a>Throughout this year, several bloggers will engage in a conversation here and on their blogs \u2014 asking questions of each other and responding. Others are absolutely welcome to join the conversation, as well. Learn more about the ladies of Blogversation 2012.<\/a><\/em>
\nI try not to be biased — there’s been so much good conversation in the Blogversation, with thoughtful questions and compelling answers — but I am so eager to see this week’s conversation.
\nOften when we’re in the midst of something painful, we can’t see its full effects. We can’t see that losing a job or going through a divorce or whatever other difficult experience is going to lead us to a dramatically better place.
\nSo with that comes this question about evolution and revolution from Kim Ann Curtin,\u00a0 www.TheWallStreetCoach.com<\/a>, @kimanncurtin<\/a> on Twitter:<\/p>\n

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. <\/em><\/p>\n

~ Rainer Maria Rilke<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Saying Yes to Life<\/strong><\/div>\n
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This week Kim Ann Curtin asks, "When did life seemingly hand you a doozie yet over time it became clear that it was the best thing that could have happened?"<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nOne of the greatest mentors of my life is and has been the mythologist Joseph Campbell. He speaks of a conversation he had with a Taoist master in “The Power of Myth” that teaches him that we must say yes to life.\n<\/div>\n
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Campbell approaches the master and asks if that’s true then wouldn’t that also mean saying yes to the bad things that happen as well? And the master agrees that it would – and while it might be hard for some to accept – it is what’s true.<\/div>\n
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Saying yes to a raise, promotion or a marriage proposal from the love of your life are easy to say yes to. But being fired? Losing all your money? Watching a loved one slip into an illness that makes them a shell of the person they once were? How in hell does one say yes to that?!<\/div>\n
\nAnd yet when I think about what primitive civilizations faced, I imagine they faced loss every hour of the day – life threatening in fact and interestingly enough they said yes all the time! This from Campbell’s Pathway’s to Bliss:<\/p>\n
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“The first, primitive orders of mythology are affirmative: they embrace life on its own terms. I don\u2019t think any anthropologist could document a primitive mythology that was world-negating. When you realize what primitive people run up against\u2014the pains and the agonies and the problems of simply existing\u2014I think it\u2019s quite amazing. I\u2019ve\u00a0studied a lot of the myths of these cultures around the world, and I can\u2019t recall a single negative word in primitive thought with respect to existence or to the universe. World-weariness comes later with people who are living high on the hog.”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Kim Ann Curtin recently had this "yes" necklace made by Lauren Harkness. Click through to Lauren's website.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nI recently had a necklace made of this empowering word to help me remember that this is how I want to live. A life that says yes to life. Yet believe me I still find it really hard to say on some days in spite of it hanging around my neck. I yearn to say it all the time and sometimes because of grace I do. One of the ways that helps me say it in the fire and the rain is when I remember times in the past when life appeared to hand me what looked like an absolute horror and yet in the long run turned out to be the very key to my freedom and in fact wound up being the very best thing that could have happened to me.\n<\/div>\n
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So that’s my question: When did life seemingly hand you a doozie yet over time it became clear that it was the best thing that could have happened? That, as Rilke says, life clearly was in the “right?”\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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