• Archive for December, 2012

    We often say we have forgiven someone when we come to understand that we might have acted in a similar fashion in their place. We may feel magnanimous and proud of our generosity but often we continue to feel anger about the injury that was done to us. This is understanding not forgiveness, or maybe it can be called forgiveness of the mind. True forgiveness is the gift of a humble heart, one that can only be bestowed by one who has experienced forgiveness of one’s own trespasses, not by another person, but by the gods themselves.

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    The underlying psychological mechanisms which we know as the gods (or when we abstract what is common to all, as God), dwell in the Sentient not the Sapient mind; a part of us that lies outside the boundaries of what we experience as the Ego. This is the mystery, proclaimed by spiritual teachers, explained: God is outside of the self but is none-the-less to be found within. But when our knowledge, a product of the Ego, is super-imposed upon our direct perceptions, we see things only as we understand them to be, what we believe we see, and the deeper regions of the Sentient Mind, the very well springs of “deep meaning,” of “soulfulness” are cut off from the light of day. The wisdom of the mind supersedes the wisdom of the heart. The Ego has set itself against the gods. This is Hubris.

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