Theft - Combination of Pride and Fear

Theft - Combination of Pride and Fear - (5053)

To have something stolen from us is an interesting psychological experience.

We can observe an "I" of anger with pride behind it, and an "I" of fear appearing. Anger first and fear afterwards.

To steal something means to think that our rights to steal are greater or more valid than the right of the other person to kept it as their own possession. This is pure pride.

When we are stolen from, anger appears because our pride realises that someone (the thief) had the audacity to feel that they had more right to what they stole than we do - the legitimate owner to keep it. How dare they we think!

We then feel fear because if there is someone who can assume that they have more right to something which is legitimately ours, just imagine how what else they can do. They can take our privacy or our safety or our security away just because they feel that they have greater rights to violate those things than we do to have our privacy, security and safety maintained.

The result of this reflection is that we had this experience and we have these "I's" because we have stolen in the past.

Because to feel angry and scared means that we know the psychology of stealing - because we have stolen before.

End (5053).

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