Tigers Don’t Sing

I’ll deal with people who won’t respect the Three Gates, but I understand that, at the least, we do not see the world the same way, or have the same values. So I will not give them access to my “child” self without “daddy” present, and watchful. “Is it True? Is it Kind? Is it Useful?”

It is not that everything I say passes the three. I see things in my actions where I’m not being as honest as I could be, or not being kind. I’ve developed a couple of tactics for self-protection and monitoring my threads that are so powerful that without meaning to, I’ve triggered pain in others. I can afford to be…