tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post2597790197264629612..comments2023-09-15T05:24:29.125-07:00Comments on What lies within: Service and the Soul.....Margaret Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-52305317168798559322007-09-02T12:52:00.000-07:002007-09-02T12:52:00.000-07:00When I read your comment I was once again reminded...When I read your comment I was once again reminded of the words of Irwina Tweedie who underwent training by a Sufi master. She said 'criticise yourself constantly then you may get somewhere'. This only applies to the spiritual path. There can be no ego defensiveness on this path. It takes a certain leap of faith and a leaving behind familiar ways of behaving if an expanded state of consciousness is to be achieved. Achieving this state is dependent on the strength of the purification process.<BR/><BR/>If I had defended myself along the lines that you suggest in your comment then this would have been my ego coming out in defence. But what would I have been defending? Nothing only a point of view that I was right in how I dealt with with the situation. For me it is more important to be happy than to be right. I can feel and experience 'happy', not so 'right'.<BR/><BR/>I had a choice at that time to either defend my ego or take the lesson as a spiritual lesson. To someone who has not committed to a spiritual path this course of action is difficult to understand and does give the impression of being deferential. This is far from the truth! I am deferential to the message, not to the messenger!<BR/><BR/>I think that if this was the beginning of my spiritual journey I might be inclined to think like you do. It is the second cycle for me and I know what is possible from being hard on yourself but as I say from a position of high self-esteem and not low.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your commentMargaret Dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-79397698017710217362007-09-02T12:14:00.000-07:002007-09-02T12:14:00.000-07:00"A yearning...but for what."Your Mr. Sunday, that'..."A yearning...but for what."<BR/><BR/>Your Mr. Sunday, that's what.<BR/><BR/>"When I don't see him I'm missing him and fantasing what I will say when we meet again."<BR/><BR/>No mention of him today. Was he in your thoughts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-6274494422035695632007-09-02T12:10:00.000-07:002007-09-02T12:10:00.000-07:00"He didn't make me feel wrong but I could feel a h..."He didn't make me feel wrong but I could feel a hot flush of shame as I saw how my action had robbed her of the opportunity to have a breakthrough in that area for herself."<BR/><BR/>Perhaps it is true that you limited her choices, but at the same time you wanted to help her get there. It is also possible that you sensed some resistance on her part that you wished to overcome. You were trying to help her to "learn how to fish" since that is what the course appears to offer. Her attendance itself might have been a breakthrough for her.<BR/><BR/>It seems you are overly deferential to those who you see as being in positions of seniority, such as your boss, or this supervisor. Is that so?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com