Note to self: Don’t feel yourself to be separate from others. It causes pain.
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"I have what you have not. I am what you are not. I have taken what you have failed to take and I have seized what you could never get. Therefore you suffer and I am happy, you are despised and I am praised, you die and I live;you are nothing and I am something, and I am all the more something because you are nothing. And thus I spend my life admiring the distance between you and me" Thomas Merton's description of the individual. yikes!
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"I have what you have not. I am what you are not. I have taken what you have failed to take and I have seized what you could never get. Therefore you suffer and I am happy, you are despised and I am praised, you die and I live;you are nothing and I am something, and I am all the more something because you are nothing. And thus I spend my life admiring the distance between you and me"
Thomas Merton's description of the individual. yikes!
Of course, he was AGAINST this kind of thinking....
Right?
Your initial post reminds me of A Course in Miracles...
yes, he was against it.
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