Selfishness Selfishness is really a multi-faceted defect, and so this blog post is only going to concentrate on one of its facets, and this facet centres around one observation and this observation is that selfishness tends to increase when some hardship with other people is experienced. Why? This is quite easy to answer because selfishness is a mechanism of self-protection. It knows that being alone we are safe and no one can hurt us. Being with others we know that the danger is there, that we could get hurt once again while being in the presence of others, so naturally and logically we seek isolation. Selfishness then is a mechanism of compensation, it promises pleasure, projecting ideas of us being alone doing something that we can only really do alone and of course we are there enjoying it immensely. We project ideas of going for a long walk along the beach, reading as much as we like, meditating somewhere peaceful, watching movies, etc. etc. Animal in Nature ...
Make the knowledge received, consciousness in action. The time for the consciousness is NOW. Decide now to act and change will follow. Consciousness shines in change, and consciousness becoming aware of itself is light. Light shining into darkness expands the light. The expanding light establishes presence in the light. The wisdom of being in the light is Gnostic wisdom.