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I find the first paragraph deeply psychologically insightful, but the second contains one of the things that has never landed from me in many Eastern philosophies (a kind of willful romanticism about the way goodness actually works in human beings)

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I respect people who behave this way, but also understand why some people don't even if they have similarly good intentions (it can make you highly prone to abuses by unjust people)

when people expect the goodness to flow from specific people in specific ways, whether because they were kind to them, gave them things, or even because the person said they would, it creates resentment and resistance that cuts off the flow that tolle is talking about. goodness needs to be given fully without expectations, with trust that what you need will find you even if you have no idea how 🩵