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Heavenletter #5345 Your Sacred Power

Dear Gloria and dear Charles,

I do need your help in explaining to me the meaning of "bouncing off:"in the following paragraph:

You may have thought that you are bouncing off another. The possibility is that a bully is bouncing off you. If this is the case, now you do know the silent power you have. Silent power is silent power. Unspoken power is power just the same. If you have gotten yourself into a fix, you can get out of it.

I know that the verb bounce is used frequently in English but it is always hard for me to get the meaning.

Thanks a lot.

Beloved Luus, will you

Beloved Luus, will you kindly put the entire context. The whole Heavenletter is fine and then, as before, bold the section you most want to know about. Will you kindly do that? I just had to ask dear Wanda to do the same. Appreciate your help so much!

It means to rebound. To put

It means to rebound. To put bouncing in its whole context in the Heavenletter will help so much. Thanks.

Here's the whole Heavenletter #5345

I missed your reply, was too busy, but here's the Heavenletter:

"Here is a lesson in life. This is a great lesson for you to learn. It is a basic lesson. For a long time, you have not absorbed this lesson. You have flouted it, or ego has flouted it for you. Here is the message to uphold:

You don’t have to stick up for yourself.

In the world, as you imagine it, life demands that you stick up for yourself. It demands that you joust with words, for, as it seems to you, no one has the right to overlook you or insult you or demean you in any way.

You presuppose that what someone says or doesn’t say has the power to demean you. You may be quick to give away your own God-given power.

You may say to yourself: “This time I will stick up for myself.”

When you stick up for yourself, you think you are saying: “You must not affront me. You have no right to affront me.” Just so, you have given the seeming other the right. You just handed it to him as you say, “Look, you have affronted me.”

I don’t tell you to be a mouse. I am telling you that it is a mouse that squeaks. The seeming other does not have to get a rise out of you. You do not have to give away your sacred power. You do not have to give your sacred power over to anyone. Even if you are in prison, you can keep your Power to yourself in Silence.

Do you fear that being silent is acquiescing? Being silent holds a great deal of power. Or, you can respond, “Of course.” Okay means: “Okay, let’s go on with life.”

Isn’t this what it is done in karate? Your so-called opponent can’t get the better of you when you don’t resist? You get the best of yourself. How you want power. Of course, you do not have to succumb to powerlessness in the world. You have the power not to react. You don’t have to be anyone’s yo-yo.

Keeping silent is a great resource. It is at your disposal.

You are not fighting for your life. Being overwhelmingly sensitive is ego, beloveds.

If you have by chance considered yourself as a punching bag in life, reconsider. Or left out, or denied, or belittled.

You are not to be a victim. A victim is not an either/or thing. It is not: You are a victim, or you are not a victim. Your choosing not to be a victim goes further than hitting back. Think carefully. Maybe you like to be a victim. Maybe you like to be outraged. Maybe you are looking for a fight, and the so-called victimizer is giving you what you want. What are your motives, beloveds? What makes you tick? What sign do you wear on your back? What do you want? What signals do you put out?

If you don’t want to play the role of a victim, don’t play it. Even when you may have painted yourself into a corner, you can get out of it. Whatever role you may play, you can get out of it. You don’t change roles with bluster. You do it with awareness. When you awake, you also give those near you a chance to awake as well.

You may have thought that you are bouncing off another. The possibility is that a bully is bouncing off you. If this is the case, now you do know the silent power you have. Silent power is silent power. Unspoken power is power just the same. If you have gotten yourself into a fix, you can get out of it.

I will go so far as to say there are no victims in the world, only those who choose to play the role. If this is the role you have been playing, change roles now. There are other roles than victim or victimizer. There are many other and better roles to play. Choose the role you play in the world for yourself."

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I looked up the word rebound, but am still puzzled. So I do need an explation.
Thanks.

Thanks, Luus. Having the

Thanks, Luus. Having the whole context helps so much.

Okay, let's see what we can do.

You bounce a ball. You may bounce a ball off a garage door, for instance. The ball bounces back. Tennis is probably a great example of bouncing back. In pool, I believe a synonym for bouncing off something is carom.There is some back and forth and one thing bouncing off another.

Two people having a conversaton or even an argument can be seen as bouncing off each other.

So far so good?

In an example of a bully and a victim, for instance. probably we think that a bully creates a victim. God questions who is bouncing off whom? Instead of the victim being produced by the bully, God poses the possibility that the victim makes the bully. Who bounces off whom?

God comes at this from an unusual angle, it seems to me. I kinda think that God is saying we may silently invite a situation. In any case, we have to take the responsibility to get out of the situation. We don't wait to be rescued. And so we grow. God certainly thinks out of the box!

Very good question, Luus. I hope I addressed it, and it's clearer now. Let us know, will you?

Dear Gloria, All

Dear Gloria,

All dictionaries give the examples as boucing a ball, but bouncing off someone can be found nowhere.

You did make it a little bit clearer, but I would not mind God not using the word bounce/bouncing any more.

Thanks for your help.

Dearest Luus, I don't know

Dearest Luus, I don't know what to say. We'll just see what happens. Hmm. Right now I stretch a little and think of the waves of the sea bouncing back from the shore.

Something that goes back and forth.

Up and down is easy to grasp.

Do you know what could be a good idea? Ask a child for the meaning. A child might come up with something so simple!

Thanks for all you do, Luus. And you do a lot so caringly.

Luus, this is really a tough

Luus, this is really a tough one. It is absolutely necessary to have the context of the whole Heavenletter in order to understand. I think the overall message is fairly clear and it is an important one. Gloria gives a good summary. But the part you question is not at all clear, and there are other parts that have their own puzzle.

In English, I might say "Let me bounce some ideas off you." In other words, "Let me toss some ideas your way and see what your reaction is." So words can be used like tossing or throwing a ball, either back and forth or with the idea of defeating someone, even hurting someone. That is the sense being used here, but most English speakers would not use the word "bounce" this way and most would probably have trouble saying what it means.

In English I can get the general drift of what is being said from the rest of the message and just let this passage go by . As a translator you don't have that luxury, you have to come up with a word.

Thank you, Charles and

Thank you, Charles and Gloria. Especially Charles' last post helps me to find a good translation, and just now while typing I think I have the right Dutch expression So thank you both a lot.