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Dylan O'Sullivan
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Eckhart Tolle, damn
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
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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marlo
@marlo
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 š©µ
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tldr (tim reilly)
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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)
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marlo
@marlo
i see things in a slightly different wayā¦ instead of a paradigm of āi help others and others help meā itās more like, āi help the greater good and the greater good helps meā or āi support the all and the all supports meā this means i consider myself within the equation, an important part of the all. i donāt sacrifice myself for anyone, and donāt feed greed or exploitation. thereās no way to abuse my kindness i have a weird way of seeing things though. itās more like āwhat underlying pattern am i supporting by this action?ā than just randomly giving of myself. too many narcissists in my life growing up. i am 100% aware of the abuses humanity is capable of. i was very fucked up and jaded from it all but chose to find a logical way to live a positive life instead because it sucked so much does that even make sense? š
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