World Waiting to be Born
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally”
Oliver Hereford
In other words, civility might have much more to do with conscious intention- awareness- than with not hurting feelings. In fact, on occasion, it might actually be civil to hurt someone’s feelings as long as you know what you are doing.
Many with a “personal sense of destiny” when fulfilled their greatest joy was not their fame, but their relief. Their destinies had finally, finally begun to catch up with them.
All of us are actors in a marvelous, complex, cosmic drama. The most we can hope for is to get little glimpses of what the drama is about and little glimpses of how best to play our role.
But we say we don’t want to only be the best actor, we want to be the best scriptwriter.
God calls all of us- and always- to spiritual power, including the power to surrender.
We are all narcissistic to a degree, we all have a tendency to be remarkably unaware of the differentness, the separateness and uniqueness of our fellow human beings. Narcissists can have very little regard for others on many levels.
Many live in a narcissistic fantasy world and, would rather, than grow out of it by facing the friction of a “reality check”.
For most of us, if there is evidence around us that might point to our own sin and imperfection, if that evidence pushes us up against the wall, we usually come to recognize that something is wrong and we make some kind of self-correction.
Those who do not are ‘people of the lie’, because one of their distinguishing characteristics is their ability to lie to themselves, as well as to others, and to insist on being ignorant of their own faults or wrongdoing. Their guiding motive is to feel good about themselves, at all costs, at all times, no matter what evidence there may be that points to their sin or imperfection.
M Scott-Peck
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