how do you keep negativity at bay?

[davidsun]

Originally Posted by Greenslade

What? No overly-convoluted passages from your book or writings? You missed that opportunity.

I didn't miss - pinned the tail on Don Quixote's donkey, I did

Originally Posted by davidsun

I didn't miss - pinned the tail on Don Quixote's donkey, I did

There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet

[davidsun]

Originally Posted by Greenslade

There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet

True. Wouldn't it be boring if what one knew was all that there was to know - like being full of yourself, Don Quixote?

Originally Posted by davidsun

True. Wouldn't it be boring if what one knew was all that there was to know - like being full of yourself, Don Quixote?

You should thank me David, because of me you can express the self-righteous aspect of yourself and give yourself heaps of ego brownie points. All preach and no practice it is I suppose.

[davidsun]

Originally Posted by Greenslade

You should thank me David, because of me you can express the self-righteous aspect of yourself and give yourself heaps of ego brownie points. All preach and no practice it is I suppose.

You don't 'see' that I practice what I 'preach'? Though I am still learning to fully appreciate the Life-Flow blessing which the opportunity to do so provides me with. "Thou must look at thy duty. Nothing can be more welcome to a soldier than a righteous war. Therefore to waver in this resolve is unworthy, O*Arjuna! Blessed are the soldiers who find their opportunity. This opportunity has opened for thee the gates of heaven." yada yada (The Bhagavad Gita, Ch.2)

From my treatise: "Among other things (expanding the scope of The Tree of Life analogy), because of the fact that still incarnating souls are often, in one way or another, still fairly selfishly motivated, they may also (in many cases quite unconsciously!) in effect function (sometimes quite ‘poisonously’ even) as ‘parasites’ and ‘thorns’ in relation to others. Would-be Cosmic, i.e. Tree-hugging☺, souls may therefore be purposed (by Love and Joy, the imperative of Life Itself!) to learn to recognize as well as then devise and implement ways of deflecting and educationally redirecting or, such measures possibly failing, counteracting such tendencies in oneself and/or others so as to stop these from being harmfully ‘acted*out’, if, when and in whatever ways and to whatever extent one may have the capacity to so do."

Still learning (as I said) to be grateful for the likes of you who play your 'dramatic' parts in the drama so well, I am. Definitely glad to be getting 'there', though.

Originally Posted by davidsun

You don't 'see' that I practice what I 'preach'? Though I am still learning to fully appreciate the Life-Flow blessing which the opportunity to do so provides me with. "Thou must look at thy duty. Nothing can be more welcome to a soldier than a righteous war. Therefore to waver in this resolve is unworthy, O*Arjuna! Blessed are the soldiers who find their opportunity. This opportunity has opened for thee the gates of heaven." yada yada (The Bhagavad Gita, Ch.2)

From my treatise: "Among other things (expanding the scope of The Tree of Life analogy), because of the fact that still incarnating souls are often, in one way or another, still fairly selfishly motivated, they may also (in many cases quite unconsciously!) in effect function (sometimes quite ‘poisonously’ even) as ‘parasites’ and ‘thorns’ in relation to others. Would-be Cosmic, i.e. Tree-hugging☺, souls may therefore be purposed (by Love and Joy, the imperative of Life Itself!) to learn to recognize as well as then devise and implement ways of deflecting and educationally redirecting or, such measures possibly failing, counteracting such tendencies in oneself and/or others so as to stop these from being harmfully ‘acted*out’, if, when and in whatever ways and to whatever extent one may have the capacity to so do."

Still learning (as I said) to be grateful for the likes of you who play your 'dramatic' parts in the drama so well, I am. Definitely glad to be getting 'there', though.

That's better, you should have done that in the first place and save me the bother.