11-21-2012, 02:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-21-2012, 02:56 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
Quote:(11-20-2012, 11:19 PM)Bring4th_Austin Wrote:Quote:"identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself" can be difficult.
Would this be difficult because we tend to bury things which we disapprove of within ourselves? Or avoid them through dishonesty?
zenmaster Wrote:We don't tend to be conscious of many things of which we both approve and disapprove. That's why we need them both to be inflated beyond proportion in order to be recognized. We force others to into convenient roles for this purpose.
For many people, acceptance constitutes approval. This distortion is at the root of much confusion.