gold star for skirting negative feelings

“Ruined.” Urania pointed at smeared ink. “Let’s try again.”

“I still can’t beeeee-leeeeeve our good fortune!” Thalia tapped her index finger on her opposite palm as if it was a smartphone. “Ask the World Wide Web and wallah! It’s as if I Dream of Jeannie twitched her nose — We have possibilities to nick from!”

“I admit I was skeptical when you entered ‘sketches of confused car’ into the search bar.” Calliope grinned. “So we’ve learned that our no-shred eraser causes ball point ink to smear. Back to the drawing board! We can do better anyhow.”

If you didn’t have negative feelings you’d be much more more effective, much more effective. Because when negative feelings come in, you go blind. “Me” steps into the picture, and everything gets fouled up.
~ Anthony De Mello, Excerpt from Awareness