Thursday, 3 December 2015

Retreat Post 11 – Pride, Lust and Self-Love - (603)

Disclaimer – Not Mine Only Notes

I have to stress that these words are my notes only. The thoughts and understanding behind them do not come from me but from the terrific missionaries that lead the various activities during the retreat.


Self-Love

Our balance is in ourselves and not in other people. We though give our ability to balance ourselves to others so that they can balance our inner scale for ourselves.

Sense of Balance

The sense of balance is in ourselves, though because we are so focussed outside and have a huge part of our centre of gravity outside of ourselves we tend to have our sense of balance outside of ourselves. So then we need others to balance that scale which has been wrongly put outside of ourselves.

We need outside elements to balance something outside. But to balance something inside we need inner elements to do it.


Pride

Pride is related to the values of dignity, majesty and the sense of balance or justice of the Being. It is also related to the scale within us. Therefore self-love is intimately related with pride.


Lust

Lust seeks ‘to be’, sexuality seeks to be part of the Being. Sexuality is an instrument to seek to be part of the Being. However, lust does it through matter.


End (603).

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