06-28-2015, 05:47 PM
What truly makes someone STS is:
1. Recognizing that service to self is a viable avenue of growth.
Many people whom we accuse of being STS or evil are really only medicating a wound with a habit they even they see as unsustainable. The addict often knows that his addiction is killing him, but persists because he doesn't know how to live any other way. This is not STS because, as plenum mentioned, the red ray needs are simply not yet met. Most of the examples you offered, Matt1, fail to meet this first requirement.
2. Finding that one's truest expression of self aligns with the STS path.
It's not enough to simply do things that serve yourself, just as it is not enough on the STO path to do things that serve others. What really matters is your intention and the purity of your desire to manifest that intention. We rarely live up to our intentions, but as we polarize we do attempt to improve. Movement on this path, though, is impossible without genuine desire. If you are STO, you must genuinely desire the good of others without considering the benefit it may bring to yourself. An STO person attends to the crying child because she called for help, not because others will think you're a good person if you do. Similarly, an STS person seeks always benefit to herself, without consideration for extraneous concerns. Thus, an STS person needs to do yellow ray work if she conforms to popular opinion in order to feel accepted by a group. On the STS path, attachment to group opinion is a form of weakness. On the STO path, however, it is an unwillingness to accept the self as it is.
3. Consciously choosing to walk the STS path.
It's not enough to identify with STS. Being STS means you actively practice in order to maximize the power of the self, and that you are aware at all times that this is, in fact, what you are doing.
1. Recognizing that service to self is a viable avenue of growth.
Many people whom we accuse of being STS or evil are really only medicating a wound with a habit they even they see as unsustainable. The addict often knows that his addiction is killing him, but persists because he doesn't know how to live any other way. This is not STS because, as plenum mentioned, the red ray needs are simply not yet met. Most of the examples you offered, Matt1, fail to meet this first requirement.
2. Finding that one's truest expression of self aligns with the STS path.
It's not enough to simply do things that serve yourself, just as it is not enough on the STO path to do things that serve others. What really matters is your intention and the purity of your desire to manifest that intention. We rarely live up to our intentions, but as we polarize we do attempt to improve. Movement on this path, though, is impossible without genuine desire. If you are STO, you must genuinely desire the good of others without considering the benefit it may bring to yourself. An STO person attends to the crying child because she called for help, not because others will think you're a good person if you do. Similarly, an STS person seeks always benefit to herself, without consideration for extraneous concerns. Thus, an STS person needs to do yellow ray work if she conforms to popular opinion in order to feel accepted by a group. On the STS path, attachment to group opinion is a form of weakness. On the STO path, however, it is an unwillingness to accept the self as it is.
3. Consciously choosing to walk the STS path.
It's not enough to identify with STS. Being STS means you actively practice in order to maximize the power of the self, and that you are aware at all times that this is, in fact, what you are doing.
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