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The main point I've taken away from all that is that altruism is a lie; everything has a selfish aspect and that's always the driving force.
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That's one of the reasons I am still a bit doubtful about this whole polarization thing. It seems to invite people to either totally focus on
selfishness or
selflessness.
I would rather invite us to a path of
self-fulness - not in the sense of ego, but learning to be increasingly present with the life flowing through us, whether we are striving to meet needs like meaning, contribution and support or rather ones that only have to do with us as individuals. I believe that many of the problems attributed to "lack of polarization" or "lightworker's/darkworker's syndrome" could be solved that way. If you manage to be fully present, the life in you and in others doesn't need to be contradictory at all.
My other doubt is that I have seen various threads on this where people write "I want to polarize because I want... This comes from a lack of... in my life".
I am highly doubtful that doing anything from a lack-based motivation would be successful on the long run. If you are truly connected to your longing to (e.g.) have more intimacy in your life and based on that make a conscious choice to polarize, fine. But based on lack?