STO or STS

[Ankh]

Was prompted to start this thread by the following in Edgar Cayce's quote for the day from ARE:

Think on This...
For, while selflessness is the law, to belittle self is a form of selfishness and not selfless.
~Edgar Cayce

EC, of course, urged everyone to follow path of STO, which I believe is true of Ra also.

It's not always clear when making decisions which way one is going. Also, I think one's ability to understand and make wise decisions is a learning process. I remember in my 20's making some big STS decisions, and fortunately I was able to learn a lot from the rapid karmic blowback that came my way. Fortunately my spiritual helpers were on duty helping me to see the connection between my decisions and the karma, and fortunately it was fast - might have been harder to see the connection if it had taken decades rather than months or years.

I will say that I'm still learning this lesson.

Getting back to the Cayce quote, I can't say that I completely understand it. I remember Jesus said "Love your neighbor as yourself," not "love your neighbor but hate yourself." Also, I do remember the idea that on an airplane it's always been important to put your own oxygen mask on before you help your neighbor put hers on.

I agree with anagogy about this quote, that when one belittles itself, one is making a difference between the self and other self. Q'uo said that serving another is not necessarily pleasing them, but an awareness of oneness between the self and another self.

Ra didn't necessarily urge everyone to follow STO path to my knowledge. They refrained from judging polarities and said that serving the self is to serve all, that it is a dual method of saying the same thing, and that the Law of One sees the one who seeks to serve the self in a precisely the same way as the one who seeks to serve others. And they were teachers/messengers of that Law. But they did say that to a watchful eye one path is more efficient I believe.

The concept of STO and STS alone has been more or less confusing to me. In recent discussions on this forum and further contemplation of this topic, I think that I got wider understanding of polarization. If you are interested in the concept of polarization/Choice you can read the Choice thread, just skip all the Archetypes talk if you are not interested in that. And there is also this thread which Tenet Nosce created, which has been helpful to me when trying to understand this concept. In that thread he focuses on the polarization using polarization of the magnet instead of using STO and STS terms.

But to go back to your topic of EC's quote, I believe that what EC is saying, using other words is: "To be selfless is consonant with the Law of One, but when you belittle yourself you are not selfless, but selfish." Or something like that. :p