09-17-2014, 11:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-17-2014, 11:18 AM by Steppingfeet.)
(09-03-2014, 05:50 PM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: Do we polarize negatively when we do an evil deed by the intensity of that deed? No more, no less?
If it's a lot of little dishonest actions, do they add up to overall negative polarity?
Do our deeds both good and bad provide a certain inertia to how we polarize?
If one's character is to steal, and to get paid for work they didn't do, does that overall affect one's polarity in an intense manner? Is one's character a determining factor?
I believe that polarity is a long-term project, though surely it consists of countless moments of action, intention, thought, and attitude.
How much any single particular action moves us in one direction or another (if at all), I couldn't say, though I imagine that one of the determining factors is, as you said, intensity. Or strength of the feeling and action.
For instance, Ra described war as extremely polarizing. That being because of the intensity and the stakes of the choices made while participating in war.
Persistence in choosing a similar set of choices matters too.
Noticing, GW, that you have negative intentions or actions inside of you, or that you occasionally act in ways that you don't consider your highest and best, is okay. It definitely points to where you have work to do in balancing, accepting, and knowing, but we're all human. We all have similar inside.
Keep pointing in the compass toward service to others.
It is a long road.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi