Expansion
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-pandere = spread out
You have seen, I’m sure, the Taoist symbol of change called Yin/Yang. In the dark, contracting, yin side, there is a small dollop of light. In the light, expanding, yang side, there is a small dollop of dark. What most viewers forget is that the symbol whilst printed and static actually represents motion; it’s a depiction of the interplay between expansion and contraction. We in the West often favor expansion over contraction. We seem to feel that bigger is always better. Perhaps, but what if we’re talking about something like poison ivy? Then, I think not.
Expansion is about spreading out our minds, ideas, expressions, influences. The trick to living through expansion is to prepare for contraction to come soon after because, like the yin/yang, contraction is included in expansion and vice versa. When the title for this book came to me, I was in a hugely creative period of expansion. Ideas came fast and furious, and so did opportunities. I wrote the proposal and then I had to wait in a contracted time. Once the book sold, expansion followed contraction, as promised.
What happens is, when we’re in expansion mode, we forget this, and then are upset at contraction. Don’t worry. They follow one another as night follows day. Ask: How can I spread out today?
Infinition:
I know all about the rhythm of the universe. I both expand and contract with ease because I know they contain one another.
reprinted from God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002)
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One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
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Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen.
For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.
Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz.
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