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Ego Death
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Asante]
#7824254 - 01/02/08 03:57 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Good point.
It boils down to the fact that it takes only one person to take advantage of a a load of good people to fuck things up.
What does this mean? Evil has won? Shall we join them and shit on everyone to get what we want?
Or keep fighting for what deep down (I hope) we all feel is right.
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Asante
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824286 - 01/02/08 04:11 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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What does this mean? Evil has won?
No, we're more on guard and more reserved in our interaction. We give of ourselves less readily. Evil people get less love too because of their own doing 
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Shall we join them and shit on everyone to get what we want?
You can't voluntarily become evil. Either you're born evil or you're made evil by a sequence of particularly excruciating experiences early in life, and drawing the wrong life lessons from it. There isn't much warmth and joy in evil.
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Or keep fighting for what deep down (I hope) we all feel is right.
Give of yourself as much as you're comfortable with and roll with the punches if it backfires on you. That's what I do.
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Noviseer
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824393 - 01/02/08 04:52 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Ego Death said:
If theres any love left inside of you, then bring it out and spread it! Fuck image, fuck social pressure. If your truly good natured then show it and pass it on.
Maybe its just me? Was I born a true hippy? Or are other people hiding it too?
I don't think its just you. I think most people are stuck in patterned behavior which arose from emulation of the other humans. The pattern traps us into habitual activity like a net, and that net enforces its requirements using fear (manifesting in all different ways--for me, anticipation of sounding "stupid" and not "like my perfect self" which is actually just an egoic illusion). [what is your perfect self? you are perfect already!]
The only way to overcome this behavior is by acquiring strength, which can be applied as courage and calmness, which is a prerequisite for honesty and spontaneity. There are many ways to build this strength--I'm practicing kundalini yoga for this purpose--training to center myself so I can remain unruffled in the face of social pressure (which is arbitrary and asinine more often than not.)
IN a nutshell then: you gotta put work into cleaning off the lens of your love light
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Learyfan
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824463 - 01/02/08 05:22 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Yeah, I'm feeling everything that you're saying. I'm right there with you.
That's why a lot of people love the late 60's so much. My friend and I were talking about The Temptations album "Psychedelic Shack" the other day and how that album is a good example of the fact that for a brief moment in time, it was cool to be a good person. If The Temptations where out today, they'd be doing songs with Young Joc or somebody. But in early 1970, when that album released, it was cool to be a hippie, and hippies spoke of peace, love and happiness.
Now it's cool to be a complete asshole.
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824607 - 01/02/08 06:03 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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AJ4U
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7824630 - 01/02/08 06:08 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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I truely belief after my mom died something just snapped inside, i just stopped caring about everything cause it was like i had realized everything even when i was just a lounging 6th grade. To this day iv just locked myself from the rest of the world. I really dont know why, maybe deep inside im afraid or i really dont care about anything or anyone anymore. Going numb is awful feeling
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Re: Why are we suppressing the love? [Re: Ego Death]
#7825100 - 01/02/08 07:57 PM (16 years, 30 days ago) |
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Ego Death said: Hmmm, just remembering how I was when I was younger. I loved everyone until I started to meet horrible people. Then they somehow transfered their horribleness to me.
Inside though, I still have the love, I'm soppy at heart. Apparently this is wrong for a man. Society is pushing this image of 'male ego' upon me which actually disagrees with my true good nature Sometimes I dismay at whats happening here, everyone constantly living in a lie. Pretending because honesty is not accepted.
If theres any love left inside of you, then bring it out and spread it! Fuck image, fuck social pressure. If your truly good natured then show it and pass it on.
Maybe its just me? Was I born a true hippy? Or are other people hiding it too?
I agree with you, the world could be a much better place if people weren't afraid to love. Every small act of love -- a compliment, an offer of help -- only makes the world better.
I'm happy you see the value of compassion. But I don't see a lot of love in your post.
I see blame, contempt, despair. The reason you see people so many people withholding their love is because they have been hurt too. They don't want to make themselves vulnerable again. So they offer up nothing. They too choose contempt over compassion.
We all do it sometimes, but in every moment we get another opportunity to make the better choice. It's not up to others to make it a risk-free endeavor.
-------------------- Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. ~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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