Are there any girls on this forum?

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Terasi
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I am a woman not girl although I think more like a girl.

Women tend to shy away from speaking up their minds or to come forward, there are more fears of rejection and humiliation. I am not sexist, but I feel that's how it is with women around me even in more developed countries. Writing on forum falls into speaking up.

Of course not every woman is like that and I do admire those who can speak up because they can break the invisible mental barrier.

(Ok after writing all those above, I feel like a smart-ass and start to think maybe I shouldn't commented.... )
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I'm glad you did speak up, Terasi!
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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This Vepacitta is Queen of the Asuras ... ;)
I'm your friendly, neighbourhood Asura
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Any nagas, devas, yakkhas here? Come on, reveal yourself! :tongue:
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