Rightful Selfishness
To coin Shakespeare: "To thine ownself be true."
I don't see it as testament to be completely self centered, if anything I tend to be a little too accommodating so while I age I am learning to say "no" a little quicker and being a little truer to myself. I just like anyone else has at least one thing that I can't get past very well and it surrounds respect. We are all people and we have faults sometimes that we cant get around but at least we can know ourselves and be at peace with it. Therefore we are at least truer to ourselves, hopefully while practicing a little thankfulness, generosity and charity towards mankind.
I have come to believe that projecting can serve a positive purpose.
It's the way we can continue to evaluate our deepest character traits
through our perception of other people. In other words, if I see someone
as selfish, it's a sign to look into that trait in myself.....and face the Truth
that we all have selfishness and the only cure is to practice unselfishness (generosity)
- this is just an example of course, there's much more that I won't get into at this time.
To coin Shakespeare: "To thine ownself be true."
I don't see it as testament to be completely self centered, if anything I tend to be a little too accommodating so while I age I am learning to say "no" a little quicker and being a little truer to myself. I just like anyone else has at least one thing that I can't get past very well and it surrounds respect. We are all people and we have faults sometimes that we cant get around but at least we can know ourselves and be at peace with it. Therefore we are at least truer to ourselves, hopefully while practicing a little thankfulness, generosity and charity towards mankind.