An Origin of Self-Deception - (4434)

Where does the capacity of self-deception come from? One answer is that is something that we ourselves have created. How have we created it? One answer is through the many difficult experiences of life.

We may have found ourselves in difficult life circumstances and maybe the only way to get out of it with minimal effect to others and ourselves was to lie. Which could have included exaggerating our suffering and the difficulties we were going through.

Seeing that this worked, we then repeat it and repeat it. Using it as a way to get out of difficulty, sometimes when it was our fault and sometimes when we didn't have the legitimate means ourselves to get ourselves out of difficulty. Creating a pattern of behaviour. As everything in life demands a transaction, we pay for the lies that get us out difficulty by selling our own truth and developing self-deception. 

In synthesis, self-deception is something that we create through lying, which starts off consciously then in time becomes a habit. As the habit strengthens in time we begin to believe our lies, lying to ourselves becomes a way of thinking. Then our capacity to self-deceive has matured within us to become a feature of psychology and something that impedes our awakening and the ability to see our faults. 

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Learning is Balancing - (4425)

Learning about ourselves is really a process of balancing, restoring the balance.

That is why learning about ourselves never stops, because the universe is always in a state of flux, meaning that the universe is always rebalancing itself, and learning is one of the processes that restores the balance anew.

The oscillations between balance and imbalance is what keeps everything moving. If all was totally balanced everything would become static. But very little is static.

As we are alive and we are in a state of flux and always will be and so we will always be learning to reinstate new and old balances.

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