Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*Do you finger point, cross your arms over your chest or wave others off when speaking
with them?
*Do you focus regularly on “self improvement” or tend to regret your past mistakes
(including any possible “sins”)?
*Do you interrupt others while they are speaking?
*Do you think about your next sentence while another is still speaking?
*Do you have difficulty admitting that you don’t know something?
*Do you “one-up” other people’s stories with exciting tales of your own?
*Do you offer others unsolicited “help” or advice?
*Do you blame others or look for whomever is “at fault” whenever things go wrong?
*Do you laugh at people who wear “weird clothes” or say “strange things”?
*Do you shy away from homeless people and beggars?
The CONSEQUENCES of our ARROGANCE ADDICTION
The chances are pretty good that most of you answered “yes” to more than a few of the
previously posed queries (I certainly did). If so, there is no need to feel bad at all.
As humans, we have been subconsciously programmed to think and feel and behave in
ways that are primarily self-serving and often less than Kind.
And yet, we wonder why. Why is it so hard to be humble? Why is it so challenging for us
to set our pride aside and make our lives about serving others instead of fulfilling our
own desires? Why is it so difficult to open up to fresh ideas and novel thoughts instead of
clinging to traditional dogmas and entrenched beliefs?
For starters, while we possess brains that are brilliant, we also possess brains that are
patently incapable of registering even the smallest fractions of the grander Reality around
us. We are, essentially, constantly in a state of unknowing – an unknowing that is
terrifying to us on the most primal levels of our being. As such, we are programmed to
cope with this base-ignorance by gathering what little data we can, sorting that data as
best we can, and then using that dearth of data to formulate concrete beliefs about the
“nature of reality”.
This is how we cope with the patent lack of objective information at our disposal … And
this is the primal source of our arrogance.
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