--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- Patrick Gillam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I marvel at my assholeness to this day. > > > > We're all marvelous assholes at times, aren't we? Like > > when I'm driving along singing a bhajan and a guy cuts > > in front of me, brakes too hard or does something to > > violate my driving ideal and I scream at him and give > > him the finger. Ha! What a jerk! > > I've always felt that developing a sense of comfort > with (and forgiveness for) one's assholiness is far > more important to spiritual progress than developing > a feel (almost always illusory) for one's holiness.
Sometimes I'm a jerk from my own wellspring of ego, but sometimes - to tie this back to Peter's original mention of projective identification - I buy into someone else's ego projection, and that's what surprises me. It's like I witness it, too, often. Projective identification again: > The person in question unconsciously > projects a unintegrated/disowned aspect of their > personality onto others and provokes them into > responding/behaving in accord with that unintegrated > part. I guess I can be manipulated by another person like that because the "unintegrated/disowned aspect of their personality" is living in me. Another opportunity for forgiveness, I suppose. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/YbEMxA/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
