The Selfish Person No. 1

The Selfish Person No. 1 - (4129)

There are many selfish people around in the world, no matter where you go, we encounter them, perhaps we are even one of them looking at all the selfish people out there.

It’s true that the life set up by some cultures supports that selfish characteristic. For example, in Australia, the culture, I find anyway, makes it so easy to be selfish. In fact sorry to say this, selfishness can become so natural that we just don't see it.

In Australia we can live in a house for ten years and never once speak to the people who live next door and not even care to speak to them...

Anyway why am I writing this? For a reason of course. We want the path and we aspire to the values that are needed to work in the path and in the Great Cause of the Father, and so we are open to hear about what those values could be.

Some of those values are the opposite of selfishness. Selfishness is a defect that actually traps many values. When we begin to work on selfishness we develop many marvellous values that make us strong and able to serve the Great Cause of the Father, and no matter which kind of human being we are: king or beggar, master or disciple, initiate or neophyte, we are all servants of the Great Cause!

Lets see how can we define a selfish person? Or how can we know if we are selfish?

Easy, when we desire or want something and we pursue it, which is fine by the way, but pursuing it harms others or inconviences others or puts them in a difficult situation or costs them unfairly somehow, then we are for sure: selfish!

After a while people stop liking a selfish person. This is because they take more than they give and the merit of relating runs out and an imbalance occurs resulting in a dislike for the selfish person. As the dislike is there to stop the selfish person from taking more or to indicate to the selfish person that's now time to give something back.

End (4129).

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