The deepest confusion begins with a question built on a mistaken label.
Here, this was how identification happened.
An imposed label defined me as sweet and joyful. Good and obedient. Being recognized. Rewards. Identification of thought happened. Then the “identified one” molded and used self-control to stay aligned with these defined labels. Any subsequent label appearance that was not sweet, joyful, good or obedient caused a bad, deceptive feeling of division. A shut down. Freezing. Division from within and in perception.
Now when I hear that I’m sweet, I feel the warmth, but do not limit myself to this label, (although sweetness still appears). When I hear that I’m cold or divisive, I feel the sting, I feel the wounding, but I also remember that the Truth of Truth that IS, cannot be defined, or divided up by any feeling-thought label.
Truth is Free. And I will remember Freedom while appearing fully human; sometimes feeling sweet, and sometimes feeling wounded. I am neither, but am willing to feel the entire continuum of “sweetness & woundedness”, knowing that any movement towards identifying with either of them will be seen through as false.
Nina’s Nuances 