07-06-2012, 08:09 PM
(07-06-2012, 09:09 AM)ShinAr Wrote: Changing ourselves is the whole premise behind evolution Monica.
But as we do so there are certain aspects about our reality that we must come to terms with in order to move on. One such aspect is that we cannot expect everyone to fall into line behind us because we believe we have the only solution and the only answer.
We must place ourselves into the whole of humanity, with all of its nature both good and bad, and realize the greater truth rather than trying to make our tiny portion of it the only pure humanity.
Humanity is all of us, and that includes a very broad range of personality and character. Individually we are a fragmented illusionary identity we have created ourselves. This is not reality. And all these aspects of our emotional interaction with the All exists only within that illusion.
When we come to accept our humanity we accept that those individual emotions and personalities are not the definition of humanity, but simply the definition of what we think we are and what we might like humanity to be.
To be human is to accept humanity as it is.
realizing its mistakes, its faults, and its unnatural episodes, and most of all that all of those things pertain as much to us as individuals as it does to the whole. This does not mean that we should not strive to make humanity a better place, a better whole. But it does mean that if we define ourselves by adopting one tiny facet of human nature, and our need to change it as though all the other facets are not as much of a definition of the whole, than we are defining ourselves as less than the whole, less than human, less than the evolution of humanity, and outside of the development of the All. Which would be of course delusional.
Challenging the faults of our humanity is honorable. Building on one's character is commendable. Attempting to paint a more pleasing picture is pleasurable.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to make a difference or trying to create a better world.
But one should not delude themselves into believing that humanity is going to change because of their effort, or that everyone should think and act the same.
The delusion is in the expectation that anything which disagrees with what we choose to believe is wrong, even when we know we are right.
The reality is that no matter how right we may be, we are not the whole of humanity, nor the perfect aspect of what it should be, if it would all just think and live as we do.
When we live as a human desiring to improve upon our individual humanity, with the wisdom that our whole humanity is not under our control, then we can better understand our place within it, and better develop our character as a result of it.
Imagine if all the terrorists and activists would adopt such thinking?
I'm not sure what all this has to do with cats, but thanks for sharing, Shin'Ar!