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Intensities ‘remember’ if you slight them. Things reach out and call for us, and these voices determine who and how we are, for we determine our character in response – which determines what and how other things are. We’re composed of relations. Such that slighting things slights sides of ourself.
Response happens at a primal level, and so it isn’t the case that we’re mostly faced with things that we, in the moment, then choose how to respond to; we respond and show who we are before we choose our next step, though reflection may allow us to change.
Self-cultivation goes deeper than we tend to think.