Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*Our ARROGANCE KEEPS US AFRAID & at risk …
Because we succumb to the ego-mind’s
desire to “process” our lives, and because
that ego-mind does so by constantly
identifying people who are “dangerous”
and situations that are “risky”, our
arrogance keeps us soaked in thoughts
that are built upon anxiety and filled with
fear. Ironically, this chosen life-view
does not make us “safer” at all. In
actuality, such a fear-based mindset
serves to maintain a cycle of sadness; a
thought-pattern that concentrates on lack
and lust, as opposed to levity and Love; a
cycle that actually summons those
looking for “victims” – actually calls to
us those who would do us harm …
In essence, our arrogance keeps us feeling anxious & unstable.
*Our ARROGANCE STUNTS our AWAKENING …
The longer this certainty-mentality persists, the more concrete our beliefs become – and
the less we allow ourselves to truly comprehend the true nature of ourselves and others.
Instead of seeing others as Brilliant Beings who sometimes forget their own radiance, we
judge them as “evil” or “ignorant” or “lazy” or even “arrogant”. And instead of seeing
difficult situations as priceless opportunities to transcend our selfish arrogance, we sink
deeper and deeper into negative judgments and vain hopes. We begin to believe that there
is nothing more for us to learn – or that we are fated to learn “slowly” over an entire
lifetime; that our enlightenment (and thereby our Joy) can only grow gradually; that life
is simply the way that it is – and that we are powerless to effectuate any powerfully
positive shift therein.
In essence, our arrogance lulls our True
Self to sleep – and keeps us uniformed
and unaware of the Beauty & Meaning
that could be ours to enJoy, in this &
every moment.
In essence, pride is truly blind.
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