Encounter the Lacking in Ourselves from the Negative - (5926)

Knowing what we lack is an encounter with ourselves. Some may say it is an encounter with our shadow side. Either way it is to encounter ourselves.

Anyhow the point here is that what we lack will only come to our attention via the negative side of things.

Often the negative side of things could be a sarcastic comment, criticism, a reprimand, a fine, something not working out etc. etc.

All of those things are just helping us to encounter ourselves, that is, to see what we lack. At the end of the day it is all about ourselves and seeing ourselves.  

Whatever people say about ourselves is always reminding us of ourselves. The happier we are to meet ourselves and make some adjustments, the less and less of a problem it is.

The more we see that we are not perfect and we are working and working on ourselves, the less upset we will be about having to see ourselves and the more we will appreciate it.

(If we are forced to see ourselves, that shouldn't really a problem because it is our own selves. We see ourselves every waking minute. We could have a problem being forced to see someone else that we are not interested in. That is fair enough. The problem is that we don't really want to see ourselves and we are not really that interested in ourselves. To love ourselves consciously is the key to dissolve self-love.)

This bit of understanding can really help us to weaken self-love and anger. Be happy to see the lack in ourselves through the negative, is the start to transform the negative and the lack into a strength and the into the very positive.  

To see ourselves perfect is to love ourselves way too much in the impractical and painful sense. To see we are a huge work in progress is to love ourselves consciously.

To see others as a work in progress and we are all working towards fixing ourselves is to love other more consciously also. Expecting them to be perfect is insane and is a lack of maturity.

To see something as our fault when it truly is, is to see ourselves. Many of the lacks we have are our fault and the negative that comes our way is often our fault.

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