09-20-2020, 08:19 PM
(09-20-2020, 08:02 PM)Patrick Wrote: Since my nature in this incarnation is to be a good-natured softy. I am wondering if that is part of balancing compassion with wisdom. That maybe a tiny bit of anger might be wise in some specific cases when the other is unconsciously wanting/needing this from me.
I might suggest that the wisdom element in this could have to do with more clearly perceiving what's true rather than trying to force good feelings out of an unkind situation. For instance, you are rather rigidly (it could seem to some) putting this other person's needs before your own. You might want to ask yourself, at what level are their needs and at what level are my needs and what does the truth of the matter demand? Maybe needs are being expressed at a survival level or a need-to-control-due-to-greed level or social insecurity, etc.? Maybe the situation calls for more distance between you? I'm just tossing all this out to say that the role of wisdom might be to inform your heart as to the woven structure of things to allow it to better guide you? Sorting through more deeply your own motivations and theirs might be helpful when trying to determine your deepest desires in this relationship, as compared with being merely pleasantly deferential.