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Quote #1245 - #OldScripts
06 Jul, 2026
OLD SCRIPTS
"I'm still carrying the old versions of the script."
Carol Campbell
"As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you seemingly know better. Spiritually and intellectually, you realize there is another way, but emotionally you are still clinging to the old habits. This is a difficult time. Try to be patient and compassionate with yourself. When you recognize the futility of an old pattern so clearly, it's about to change! A short time later, you will suddenly begin to respond differently, in a more positive way."
Charles Duhigg
"Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins."
Leo Tolstoy
Carol was talking about versions of the play
we were rehearsing
that she had written,
but we all laughed when the line was repeated by an actor
because it was just
so true.
We all get caught up in old versions of the script,
and old scripts we've rehearsed
and played out before.
Sometimes it's not even your own script.
Sometimes I find myself in someone else's script
and somehow I can tell
what my next line is supposed to be
but I don't like it
and it's not my script.
The force of that pull can be fierce.
Trying to resist.
Lots of old scripts floating around.
Trying to observe when I'm being pulled into one
and improvise some new lines.
Trying to write new ones.
Shellen Lubin
July 6, 2026
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