New Understanding

[fellowtraveler]

So many in here from PA. Must be a vortex of some sort...

Anyhow, I just read somewhere that sending love to most is the way, but in some cases you may as well send a bucket of warm vomit.

[fellowtraveler]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

That was a tremendously funny and ironic comment, given the general direction of your other posts in this thread.

Beat me to it. Darn.

[fellowtraveler]

Originally Posted by Anagogy

Serving self and serving others are actually the same in the higher scheme of things. To serve the self is to serve all, and to serve all, is to serve the self. We are ONE, after all.

Now, having said that, if you serve self OR others out of a sense of FEAR or HATE which are really 2 sides of the same coin, you are not resolving any distortions in consciousness, and are on the path of SEPARATION.

Fear is lack consciousness, and love is abundance consciousness. If you love self, but do not love others, you limit yourself. If you love others, but do not love self, you are ALSO limiting yourself. Love is not just an emotion that humans sometimes feel. It is quite literally, the infinite intelligent ordering principle and underlying uniting metaphysical force of the universe and existence itself!

Fear SEPARATES, and inspires the concept of "elite" and the concept of the necessity of "control". You only have to control what you fear, and you fear what you don't understand. And what you DO understand is familiar, so you like it better than the stuff you don't understand. So you exalt one portion of reality, and alienate the other portion. This is the thought system of our egos, of separation. In the mystery clad unity of creation, all things are in actuality equal, and filled with divine love.

I'm with ya. Fear of others and hate for myself is what had been keeping me from serving.

Anyhow, when the info goes too far out there, the words too many, the concepts too "twisty"...I do what comes to me. Right now, service is what I'm about. It will be a long time til I can deal with the infinite, if ever. So I do my best. Only thing I have going for me really is a form of "intelligence" that lets me go from X to Z without necessarily having to know what Y is.

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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

That was a tremendously funny and ironic comment, given the general direction of your other posts in this thread.

I wonder whether you will tell your kids, "I'm picking you up today, only because I was temporarily overcome by my egoic impulses. On other days, you'll have to find your own way home - I don't provide any services to others, I add no value and there is nothing for me to accomplish."

uh oh, you caught me ALG, I don't believe I claimed to be egoless or that I advocate not doing.

my point was only that I believed the concept of *service or *altruism as a way to enlightment or growth was an egoic concept - the idea we are not intrinsically perfect as we are and the need to *Do something outside self to make the world or self better or to EARN salvation or enlightment.

I do what i do - i just no longer believe I score any brownie points for doing so.

[fellowtraveler]

When I got in to work this morning, the material for the company's latest United Way campaign was lying on my desk.

On top was a brochure with this year's slogan: "Use Your Power for Good!"

Good enough for me...