When we are in tough or difficult situation the most helpful thing of all is TO KEEP SILENT!
Only nuetral and positive words about fixing or repairing the difficulty.
Nothing helps us more thatn that. When we thing negativity will help we are MISTAKEN!
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J.R Tolkien was really onto something when he called the third book of the Lord of the Rings, the "Return of the King".
I believe he touched on something deep within the human psyche.
I believe deep within everyone is knowledge of the true king. Plus within all of us there is a genuine deep longing for the true King.
Having spiritually fallen, and having lost deep connection with our Inner Being, we long for the noble power that is wise, strong, just, compassionate, powerful and spiritual.
Many women look for that in the men they wish to marry.
Many men look for that in a leader they wish to fight for.
When a human being truly possessing those qualities appears in public light, people are drawn to admire and support such a person.
We must know that we all have within us, the true King which is our Inner Being, which starts with Atman and extends to the Logoic Triangle and beyond.
Our Inner Being is our soverign power with all of those qualities. What we can do first of all is to recognise that we have the true King within, and the second thing is to consciously long, await and hope for its return within us.
The third thing we can do is to send waves of adoration in the way of hope, faith and love to the true king. The fourth thing is to pray and wait with a silent mind for its voice to speak to us, allowing us to intuit it's will and feel it's way of going about things.
The fifth thing we can do, is with prayer and meditation take refuge in our heart temple being present with the true King and drawing much serenity and stength from its presence within.
The sixth thing we can do, is in prayer ask to know and understand the qualities of a King, so as to bring these qualities into our physical life.
The seventh thing we can do, is in action live and be these qualities of the true king in our pjhysical life. Thus with these seven actions we unite in spirit, psychology (soul), heart, mind, word and action with the true King.
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What helps us so so much in our work is what is know as 'momentum' in our esoteric life.
Momentum it seems is a real thing. A real universal experience of being happily at work towards something meaningful to us.
As soon as we get momentum going in our esoteric life we will love the esoteric work.
With love for the work everything starts change for the better...
Momentum means the act of consistently doing things on a daily basis that moves you towards your yearnings in your esoteric life.
Every time you look inside, every time you meditate, every time you work on an 'ego', every time you face that which you have been putting off for ages, every time you understand something new about yourself... All of these things build your momentum.
The wonderful thing is that the more momentum you get, the easier each of these individual acts become, the amount of discipline and will power it takes to get moving on any one thing gets smaller and smaller.
Not only that, but you'll find that your faith and trust in yourself and your work will increase as a result of this consistent effort towards your yearnings.
You will slowly but surely come to love the work, because you are actively bringing out the work and your essence, which is the best in us.
That trust and love in the work translates directly into your esoteric life attracting higher forces that will help you in your work.
A person who loves the work, and trusts themselves and the work, will always find others who he or she can help and receive help from.
Conclusion, we need to get working on building momentum in our esoteric life.
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No matter if we are on the path or not, or if we are beginning or advanced, if the ego is more important to us than the Being we will never do much.
When the Inner Being is more important to us, then no matter where we are we will in time succeed.
If food, sleep and comfort is more important we will never physically do the practice we need.
If how others see us is more important to us than the Inner Being we will never be free in consciousness.
If upholding our mental ideals of what is right is more important to us than the Being, then we will never correct ourselves.
If our idea of things are more important to us than the Being then we will never face ourselves in the Being.
If the way we experience our sexual energy is more important to us than the Being we will never transmute and practice the Alchemy.
If our avoiding pain and suffering is more important to us than the Being we will never overcome our little selves to surpass the difficulties we need to overcome to be stronger in the Being.
If the mysterious prestige of pain is more important to us than the Being we will never surpass our suffering.
The list goes that changes so that we can move through all the areas of our life to define ourselves in each area for our Being.
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To be able to listen we must make our personality passive.
Which means to make our body still and then our mind still by letting go of all desires and bringing our attention to awareness to the forefront.
Maintain the mind attentive by continuing to let go of desires of distraction. All desires of distraction turn out to be personal whims.
To make our personality passive we need trust in the essence.
We make our personality active to control the situation. We trust the active personality to take care of defending and promoting our interests.
The conclusion here is that the active personality keeps the egos and distractions well and alive.
We don't need any longer to trust the personality when we want to awaken. We need to trust the essence.
We can trust our essence to take care of what is fair in our situation because it will say what's just. We can trust in the essence to take care of our desires by letting them go or by dissolving them.
The true trust is the rust in our essence and Inner Being.
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Sometimes we get into the state of just not doing anything.
It's a strange state, we are apparently all ok and we can do things if we are forced to. It's just strangely difficult to start something and get into it by ourselves.
"Why is this?" and "How to get out of that state?", are the concerning questions.
It is because we have many interests or desires working within us at the same time.
It is also because we have something inside of us more pressing to attend to, which is none of the above desires or interests.
It also can be that we see a problem with something that we really need to do as a priority and are not aware of that block.
This state is essentially an emotional block. Which appears due to an emotional confusion of priorities. The mind can also interfere adding other rules or expectations that further complicating things.
It is best to let go of the mental expectations and conditions and focus on the emotional centre.
The way to get out of it is to just sit and focus on not thinking for five minutes or longer as needes. That is to focus on oneself. Doing this brings a relaxation and focus.
With that focus then do something that needs doing. Give yourself a block of time to work on it.
As you are doing this you will feel differently and a enthusiasm will appear. That enthusiasm will guide you to the next task.
Next give yourself blocks of time to do what else you wanted to do.
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Abundance is in the nature of the sexual energy.
There is an abundance in creation.
The quality of abundance that we find in human life comes directly from ther sexual energy.
In abundance we find love as the foremost quality.
In abundance there is what we need and more - which is love.
We also see that the Divine Mother is love and abundance. It is the feminine power within the sexual energy.
So therefore in the sexual energy is love - no doubt about it. We have to transmute our sexual energy to release that love within us which we go towards our Inner Being and create abundantly within us.
All the abundance that people search for and wish for is their right and it comes to them from their sexual energy. If we cultivate our sexual energy abundance will surely come to us.
With transmutation the abundance works with the great cosmic law of reciprocity where that energy descends to us abundantly and we return it transformed abundantly so that all in creation is nourished. Which is also love.
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Whenever we need to get serious about something or be serious in an environment or circumstance there is one factor that we need.
This one factor is concentration! It holds everything about being serious in the balance.
If we know how to concentrate we can be serious.
If we can't concentrate we will only ever be serious about the things we like: food, sports, movies etc.
Our power to be serious will always be limited if we can't concentrate and apply our concentration.
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Power is a real thing, a truth, and like anything real, the question is how do we relate to it? Do we relate it in its truest edifying sense or somewhat skewed and therefore with suffering?
This post is an introduction, there will be more posts to come on this subject.
〰 Human beings like power. Human beings fight for power.
〰 Human beings believe in power and seek power because it seems power can allow us to control our life's circumstances.
〰 That is also why people seek money, because it gives control over things in common human constructed life and nature to some degree.
〰 However, it is well know that money can not buy happiness. Often the opposite is true.
〰 Power like money, also does not make us happy.
〰 Power is the ability to do things that are not commonly the case. The ability to bend or side step rules. The ability to get work or things done.
〰 Power is a real thing, a real divine attribute, so it shouldn't make us unhappy. This is because we are using it or focussing it wrongly.
〰 The real power is the one which is exercised internally over our mind and emotions to make ourselves content in this place and in this moment - right now.
〰 Basically why do human beings seek money and power, it is to be happy at the end of the day. But if money and power do not at the end of the day make us happy (because they can't), why seek them?
〰 We seek power to get something else. Power as a means to an end. Very rarely do we seek power for the sake of power.
〰 We all have power, we don't have to be a politician, business owner, leader etc. to have power. We all have some kind of power over others and ourselves. Plus we all have the potential for more power.
〰 Basically we have to use the power we have to create compassion and love because without compassion we can never be happy.
〰 When we progressively become less and less compassionate, we wound ourselves at our core and we eventually become very isolated and disconnected from all that surrounds us and we end up not understanding and being able to relate to anyone, and so we suffer lots of frustration and loneliness.
〰 We seek power to be the boss, yet what happens is the craving for power becomes the boss over us!
〰 When we seek power to be happy, it poisons us, we end up not having anytime to enjoy life, ourselves, nature and those we care about.
〰 Many people with power think that others who come close do so to take power or win favours. So they don't have friends. So they are really lonely.
〰 People who strive for power suffer. They suffer firstly in trying to get it, because everyone else wants it, it is not ready to get. We then think we have to knocktopple someone over to get power. Which hurts us and them. The desire for power in the struggle does not die, it gets stronger and so we never feel powerful enough.
〰 None of the US presidents look happy and they have the most power in the world. The probably still feel powerless to really help the people if they carry that yearning inside of them.
〰 The path brings you this true power. More about this topic in the next post.
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It is unintelligent to reject, fight and defend ourselves avoiding a psychological gymnasium.
If we look with the eyes of the work we will find something that others can help us in the work on ourselves.
If we accept that then we can work on ourselves.
Even if others show us the work that we can do on ourselves with their "I's", it is still valid.
We lose the chance to work on ourselves when we think that they should not manifest their "I's" towards us.
If we initially focus on the work that we alone can do, we can do some good work on ourselves, increase our ethical power which will later dissolve the gymnasium.
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An excellent reflection to start the day with.
This is to effect an overall transmutation of ourselves, becoming a different person day by day.
The result of the reflection can easily become a worthy goal of the day.
It starts off by giving something internally and then radiating out externally.
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The Five Hinderances in meditation are:
1.) Ill-Will
2.) Sensory Desire
3.) Restlessness and Worry
4.) Doubt
5.) Sloth and Torpor
That is so true, we all experience these classical hinderances in our practice of meditation.
No doubt we have to overcome them to meditate, that is to arrive at a stable and steady state of mindfulness.
Gnosis says that we need to overcome these hinderances and also to eliminate them. In Gnosis we know that the five hindrances come from certain psychological "I's" that we carry within our psychology.
Eliminating them directly gives us the ability to concentrate.
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We all have cosmic consciousness, but it is not so awake and active in us.
We do have consciousness YES! The consciousness we do have though is the consciousness of our person (personality) which is the consciousness of our body, our name, our ideas, our desires, our profession, our house and friends.
This is essentially a consciousness of separtivity which is really why we so often feel offended and hurt, and so we often find ourselves stuck in rivalry and competition.
The cosmic consciousness is the consciousness of unity and is the one that can transform all of the impressions of life. It is the consciousness that allows us to see the other as the same as us, and it is also the consciousness that transcends suffering and takes us to comprehend the transcendental cosmic truths which allows us to know the purpose and reason for our lives.
Cosmic consciousness is much more objective than the consciousness of ourselves which is subjective.
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To truly dissolve the pride we have created, we need to have some liking or love active within us towards seeing it dissolve.
In other words, we have to love the input we receive from others that would otherwise hurt our pride.
It is to be slightly sadistic until that love matures into really wanting pride to dissolve so at be closer to our Inner Being and be a better human being for others.
If we don;t love to see it dissolve in us we will never dissolve, instead we will be always defending, reacting and fighting back...
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The best meditation method for you is the one that you really like.
No matter what other meditation methods you try, they won't really work for you, unless you really like them and are enthusiastic about practicing them.
There are many meditation methods to find the one that you most like.
Try for at least three months to know for sure if it is your method. A given method may at first seem very difficult and not the one for you but after a few weeks it can really open up and be the one for you.
If the method is not the one for you it will end up ruining your practice altogether.
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The introduction of repentance is to lead our psychological and esoteric work to a deeper level.
With deeper and deeper comprehension repentance surges naturally and leads us deeper within.
There is nothing to stop us from working with repentance to deepen our work, when we truly yearn for a breakthrough, for a real change.
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How do we create an inner esoteric life for ourselves?
Because when we have an inner esoteric life we are in the doing going towards the being.
When we are not in the doing going towards the being we feel aimless, a bit disorientated and always that feeling that we are not doing anything or really getting anywhere.
The only way to start getting an esoteric life is by doing. We must form a goal or purpose and work on it several times during the day.
The purpose or goal must be esoteric. For example, the purpose to learn concentration. Then practice concentration several times during the day. Remember to do it and make the circumstances in our day to work so that you can do it.
Just this simple act will start and build your esoteric life.
Remember your esoteric life is built on a work that you are actively engaged in for a higher esoteric purpose. Working in that work is the salsa that fulfils you and gives you purpose and happiness.
The more we work for our inner Being, the happier and fulfilled we feel.
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It can be difficult working on our reactions when we are treated not in accordance with the various self-images that we have.
For example, if we have the self-image of being a friendly person and we are treated harshly with some hostility we react and suffer. This is because the treatment we are receiving is not in agreement with our self-image.
These self-images are created by us alone, so it is easy to just dissolve them. Don't get attached to them, dissolve them! If it helps create new and better ones that are much more real and robust, but just get rid of the old ones that make you suffer.
Don't get attached to the erroneous self-images that we create for ourselves! Dissolve them! Then so many reactions of self-love and self-importance will disappear from you.
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We ultimately have a tremendous amount of will - more than we can fathom. Because it comes from the Being within us, from the Infinite within us.
As soon as we think that we have finite or limited will-power we fall flat!
We can make more will available to us by thinking and feeling deeply that our will is infinite.
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There is the magnetism of the body. Which is created when the energy fields of two human bodies touch. The interaction of the two energy fields creates a certain magnetism or attraction, which leads to at first a subtle activation of the attracting sexual energies that given the chance to grow increases in activation.
This magnetism depends on the body and its energies, which are like energetic fluids that flow and radiate outwards that attract and build in attraction.
If the conditions of frequent physical touch and harmonious psychological interaction are met between two people, this magnetism forms and remains. If however, these conditions are not met, then that magnetism will become weak and even dissipate.
This is neither right or wrong it is simply how this type of magnetism functions, whether we like it or not, that is how it works and to make it work we must abide by the conditions upon which it works.
There is also the magnetism of the soul. Which is really founded on the yearnings of the soul. It is an attraction between souls that is spiritual and timeless in nature. It works by one soul finding the same yearnings of the soul in the other, and knowing that in the soul of the other, is what’s needed for both to fulfil the yearnings of each others souls.
It is based in a deep respect and recognition of the urgency of the souls to fulfill their spiritual yearnings.
This magnetism or attraction is truer as it does not depend on time and space and so many other complicated human psychological conditions.
This magnetism or attraction of the souls is based in a spiritual yearning and governs the energies of the body and does not depend so heavily or fully on the conditions mentioned above upon which the magnetism of the bodies is entirely dependent upon.
In conclusion, we must rise to the attraction and magnetism of the souls. From there we can work spiritually and consistently.
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We can quicken the dissolution of the "I" of self-love.
The "I" of self-love is Gnostic jargon for the conditioned self-love that makes us suffer. It is very different to the conscious love our essence has for itself.
We create many self-images that we see as cute, friendly, adorable, sorry, hard done-by etc.
We act from those self-images, seeing ourselves as friendly, cute, loving etc. and often others don't us that way and say or do something that clashes or disrespects that.
We then react with self-love, angily and intensely. The more affection we see that self-image with the stronger will our reaction be.
The key here is to dissolve those silly self-made self-images. When we don't function or act by virtue of them we will see straight away that our self-love will not manifest.
For example, we have created the self-image of being friendly, kind, respectful and one day a friend says "I don't a useless friendly and falsely kind person, I need a strong and active person". Our self-love may react, but if we just didn't act from this self-image of being friendly and kind, the "I" of self-love would not appear. Instead, if we act from what we naturally are, without any self-image except the true one, that we are an essence, self-love starts to dissolve.
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Emotional thinking makes us better off when it comes to understanding and relating to our fellow man.
Intellectual thinking is the ideal and the way it should be, but in real life it just isn't the way things roll.
When it comes to the crunch our emotions control us more than the 'mentally logical'.
We think intellectually for example, that no one should disagree or dislike what I am doing because there is nothing unlawful about it, and it is all according to the rules.
However, the truth, which we don't accept, is that people disagree and dislike us.
We can expect our intellectual thinking to hold true for mere machines programmed according to liking or disliking what is lawful or unlawful, but for real flesh and blood human beings, with mind, heart and soul this does not work.
If we think emotionally, we can better understand why people dislike or like us and what we do.
To think emotionally means to know that people have emotions and that emotions are not governed by pure logic. What often happens is that even though something is within the rules of an organization, we may dislike it because of other emotional factors, yet because it is within the rules, we have to keep quiet, appearing as if we agree or like it.
We are only partly conscious when we think intellectually about others and we are more conscious when we think emotionally.
We are more emotional beings than pure intellectual beings.
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Here are some basic notes to know for any Gnostic retreat that we can go to.
There are always two retreats. The external retreat with its activities and the participants and the internal retreat that we live inside of ourselves during the retreat.
The external and internal may be different.
Accustom yourself to the retreat so to do the actual retreat. Don't try to change everything to do 'your' retreat.
If we bend the retreat to do 'our' retreat then others will have to do 'our' retreat. Which is selfish and maybe it is not useful for them.
Each retreat is designed to make the participants function in a certain way so to facilitate certain opportunities for the consciousness in the retreat.
Retreats are often bitter-sweet. We experience new insight yet we see more the reality of ourselves that needs work.
Come to a retreat to 'undo' rather than learn, acquire and gain lots things... Not to 'have' but to 'be'.
Each retreat we activate more our essence. Each retreat shows us how far away we are from living the life of our essence.
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A really good working understanding of the 'short lived' or the 'temporary' can be a great help in our psychological work.
⌚ A headache is temporary.
⌚ An interruption is temporary.
⌚ Doing the dishes is temporary.
⌚ Questions after or during a class are temporary.
⌚ An argument is temporary.
⌚ Sleep and feeling tired is temporary.
⌚ Listening to complaints is temporary.
⌚ Bad moods are temporary.
⌚ The bad moods of others are temporary.
⌚ Each "I" and its negative states are temporary.
⌚ Problems are temporary.
⌚ Difficult situations are temporary.
⌚ Listening to someone speaking negatively is temporary.
⌚ Humiliation is temporary.
⌚ The heat of anger within ourselves or in others is temporary.
⌚ The angst of unfulfilled desire is temporary.
⌚ Hunger is temporary. We will eat again very soon.
The list goes on...
The thing we often don't do is to remind ourselves that whatever it is it will soon be over. Our identification does not permit this.
It is a good way to break identification.
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When we do something for a result we are in the 'doing' or either in the 'having'.
There is the Gnosis of 'doing', 'having' and 'being'.
The best one is the Gnosis of 'being'.
When we do a practice for the love of the practice, we are focussed on being, which the practice gives opportunity for. We are not focussed on having an experience nor on the benefits of doing or not-doing.
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Recently I heard it said: 'that there really is enough for everyone in this world". I thought at first maybe not. Thinking more about it, I realised they are right.
Karma may be what prevents everyone having the same as others. Though there is still enough.
Understanding that - we really have no reason to be selfish, envious and so jealously elite.
Everyone can achieve and arrive at all that they want. There is plenty enough opportunity for us all to do that.
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Metaphorically speaking all temples are constructed of four columns.
The four pillars of Gnosis: Art, Science, Mysticism and Philosophy.
The temple itself, the stonework, the paintings, the sculptures, the writings are art and science.
The methods, techniques and knowledge is also science. The altars, the deities, the activities of adoration, contemplation and prayer is mysticism. The wisdom, way of life, conduct, the history and teachings of the temple is philosophy.
If a temple is missing any of these columns, then something will be lacking in those that attend the temple.
Gnosis is a temple. Every temple is a refuge for the soul and a place of nourishment for the soul.
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Thanks for the comment about the post on criticism. There is a lot of violence inside criticism. If I remember right, criticism is an activity from the inferno - something from like Dantean circle 6.
I certainly agree there is a lot of self-deception in criticism. Self-deception in thinking we are caring or helping with our criticism and that we are transforming things or wisely seeing the reality of the other person ad their life cricumstances.
What is inside violence, whether it be mental, verbal or physical?
At a first glance there seems to be so many things behind violence.
I've been thinking a lot about it and there is one factor that so many of my reflections come back to, which is that violence is retribution - it comes down to righting the scales.
I've found that there can't be violence if there is not a real or perceived injury. The more perceived unfair the injury, the greater the resulting violence.
Anger leads to violence. No violence without anger. Then there is no anger without pride. Remember pride is always about the scales - about what is fair.
The violence in criticism comes from pride. A pride that does not think it is fair that another person act outside of their expectations or likes and dislikes or egos. This pride feels injured that its personal rules were not taken into account.
Basically, we see in violence that what it is all about in the end is getting retribution when other means have failed or seem to slow or difficult to go by.
They say a tree is identified or known by its fruit. The fruit is the tree's end result. The end result of violence is getting even. Whether it be mental, verbal or physical it is all about leveling a debt.
To truly avoid violence we have to know how to level debts inside of ourselves without mental or verbal violence that later becomes physical.
Mental violence prepares for verbal violence and verbal violence prepares for physical.
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We identify with the egos of say anger or pride and say this and that. Ok. It's been said.
Then act with conscious effort to displace it, return to normal and according to our natural conscious capacity bring a value of the essence to change the tone and atmosphere of the event.
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The mother is magic. To remember the mother is magic. We all have probably heard those words, but we may not have found a way to connect to them.
Here is a way to connect to them. You may already have discovered this at some level. Now it may just be to make it more conscious...
If before we are to hurt someone with any of our egos, in anyway whatsoever, if we are to remember their or our mother alive or deceased, internal or external, there is the magic…
A magical effect will occur within us.
Just thinking of their mother or our mother or both does something magical within us. The love of the mother that is in each one of us comes out from within ourselves in those sincere moments. That is, from our own Divine Mother and the love that we have for her fuses with it changing our state of consciousness...
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We don't really know why until we try and give it up so as to dissolve it.
We then find a kind of resistance in the form of not wanting to give up something that we like.
It is fascinating, it takes away boredom, it brings out common interests (many people like criticism), makes for juicy conversation, more than that though it allows us to forget our flaws and short comings and to feel somewhat in control. All are illusions.
Basically we like the feeling that it gives us, which is the feeling of being in control (false feeling of being in control of their destiny) and the feeling being wise (seeing all their errors). Even though the feeling is stale and old like old bread, harsh and unkind.
Of course to citicise means to forget our faults. If is difficult to continue criticising while remembring our own faults especailly as we tend to criticise the same faults in others that we have.
Criticism always leads to the same end which is a kind of a failure. That is that the person we criticise will end up failing at some endevour.
We can choose to feel differently about others to feel fresh new, kind and uplifting helping them to rise up to new freer heights rather than drag them and ourselves downwards in our minds and words.
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