--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Interesting from the perspective of Lester Levenson, an American sage whose > insights gave rise both to the Sedona Method and to the Release Technique > organizations. Lester taught that pride was the highest of the negative > emotions. His criteria was the amount of life energy available when having > the emotion. Pride had the most as compared to apathy which has the least > and which he considered the lowest of the negative emotions. After pride > come courageousness which in his teaching is the lowest of the positive > emotions. Here's the scale from lowest to highest: > > apathy, grief, fear, lust, anger, pride, courageousness, acceptance, peaceÂ
I've always found pride to be the most interesting of emotions. From some quarters it is absolutely reviled as a deadly sin or an indication of despicable character. I don't think it is that cut and dried. I think pride has two sides and I am not even convinced that the one side is that bad but I do believe the other side is very positive. Pride becomes problematic when it causes one to shut down because one feels they have 'arrived' in some way. Pride can reflect a closed-ness born of the assumption or the feeling that one has either no more to learn, to achieve, to aspire to or to gain from opening their awareness to others and to life around them. The negative form of pride hurts no one but the one holding onto this prideful stance. In the most positive sense pride can be about appreciating and loving what one HAS achieved or given or owns or has in one's life; it can be a real reflection of one's sense of value for any of these things. To be "proud" of something can simply be a form of thankfulness and awareness. Interesting that this Lester bloke puts courage right after pride though. And how peace lies at the top of the charts. I think peach and apathy, both at the opposite end's of Lester's spectrum, can be dangerously close in manifestation if one is not careful. And how transformative 'grief' can be and therefore how positive. I am just not sure what Lester is saying here. Perhaps you could clarify Share because this is somewhat thought provoking. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Ravi Chivukula <chivukula.ravi@...> > To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 7:12 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FairfieldLife 'Jyotishees" > > > > Â > To put it another way paratha bill. > > I always question my humility - I always question myself if I was being > sincere, honest and innocent in my expression of humility. I can never be > sure - I can never guarantee my humility being untainted, uncorrupted by my > self-interest. > > But I never question my arrogance - I know it's always an honest, sincere, > authentic and innocent expression. > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ravi Chivukula <chivukula.ravi@...> wrote: > > No need to feel sorry for John's statement dear Ann. 15 years back he claimed > he was bipolar, drugs, alcohol addiction - he was extremely fragile, > emotionally tortured, perpetually broke - always demanding sympathy from > others. He may have changed - I seriously doubt it. > > > > > >Having said that - he was very intelligent, a very practical approach to > >astrology that I liked and a very good astrology software he created > >including one for Mac. > > > > > > > >On Jun 4, 2013, at 10:18 AM, "John" <jr_esq@...> wrote: > > > > > >Â > >>Ann, > >> > >>Das Goravani used to be with ISKCON. He suffered depression for many > >>years. His doctors recently found out that he has Asperger's Syndrome. > >>That's why he acts that way. > >> > >>JR > >> > >>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" <awoelflebater@> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > Jyotish according to Das Goravani. Does he qualify to be in this forum? > >>> > > >>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHoc8rEvvls > >>> > >>> Thank you so much for posting this, my husband and I just had our first > >>> belly laugh of the morning. I mean, I am sorry, but I just couldn't get > >>> past the band aids plastered all over his face, the 70's second hand > >>> store garb, the psychedelic whirly gig background and his mannerisms that > >>> appeared akin to a really hilarious takeoff of some travelling sideshow > >>> magician. Other than that I am sure the guy is brilliant... I'm just not > >>> evolved enough to appreciate him past the superficial hilarity of it. > >>> Maybe in my next life. > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba <no_reply@> wrote: > >>> > > > >>> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPds0-hZ1tM > >>> > > > >>> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@ <no_reply@> wrote: > >>> > > > > >>> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfwu_TG3K7M > >>> > > > > >>> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgGlgonEa4 > >>> > > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > >> > >> >
