Continuing my journey past through the blog archives, I noticed that the end of May in 2007 and 2008 had a theme of knowing myself better - two years ago it was about letting go of ego and last year it was letting go of useless guilt.
Too bad I still struggle with both. I let my ego get bent out of shape and when I do have the occasional unproductive day I beat myself up with guilt.
At least I recognize it now and can cut off both feelings before they do much damage.
Despite two bad things that happened to me (a car break-in and a ruptured friendship), I learned that by learning to destroy the self I would realize that neither had anything to do with me personally so didn’t warrant getting all angry and bitter about.
I’ve talked about the word should many times. I don’t believe in it or in the words have to. However, having said that I still use it a lot, even when I’m trying to be actively lazy.
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“Don’t should on yourself.” A cliche but it works. Guilt & jealousy are complete time-wasters and energy-suckers. There are emotions we have, natural ones that makes us human. There are higher ‘feelings’ to which we aspire.
Guilt is not even an emotion. It’s a conspiracy!
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@Pamir
You are so right - guilt is so not an emotion - neither is jealousy - they are both creations of the ego fabricated when comparing ourselves to others. If we can let go of the me-me-me-me-me ego then we can drop the guilt and jealousy as well.
sounds like you have come a long way from where you were before.
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@Srinivas
Yes, indeed I’ve grown a lot in the last few years. A big physical change definitely prompted a big mental and emotional change too.