Post by nina on Aug 26, 2006 16:31:04 GMT -5
Free Love
There are people who believe they are doing good by swallowing other's egos alive.
The egos of those they cannot help, and of those who cannot help them, are inedible to them --and therefore intolerable.
They cannot work with others --because their egos leave no space for "others"--only for those extensions of their own inflated selves that show they need them, or for those whom they need.
You don't love your neighbor to glorify your own ego.
When you come to your sister or brother's aid, leave your own self behind.
Love with self-sacrifice.
Escape
Man, on his own, cannot reach higher than his own ego.
He cannot break out of his own skin, he cannot lift himself up by pulling at his own hair.
All of his achievements are tied to his own ego.
All that he may comprehend is defined by his own subjective perception.
He is a prisoner by virtue of existence.
So God threw Man a rope.
He gave him tasks to fulfill that are beyond his comprehension, thoughts to fathom that take him outside the hollow of his subjective universe.
All that is needed is his willingness to leave himself.
We are all prisoners. But we sit on the keys.
There are people who believe they are doing good by swallowing other's egos alive.
The egos of those they cannot help, and of those who cannot help them, are inedible to them --and therefore intolerable.
They cannot work with others --because their egos leave no space for "others"--only for those extensions of their own inflated selves that show they need them, or for those whom they need.
You don't love your neighbor to glorify your own ego.
When you come to your sister or brother's aid, leave your own self behind.
Love with self-sacrifice.
Escape
Man, on his own, cannot reach higher than his own ego.
He cannot break out of his own skin, he cannot lift himself up by pulling at his own hair.
All of his achievements are tied to his own ego.
All that he may comprehend is defined by his own subjective perception.
He is a prisoner by virtue of existence.
So God threw Man a rope.
He gave him tasks to fulfill that are beyond his comprehension, thoughts to fathom that take him outside the hollow of his subjective universe.
All that is needed is his willingness to leave himself.
We are all prisoners. But we sit on the keys.