November 12, 2008
- How it works -
1) You are whole.
2) Something makes you doubt your wholeness. You begin clinging to a self identity of a less-than-whole person.
3) If you want it, there can be a desire to make yourself whole.
4a) You follow that desire honestly, openly, and morally, and it leads you back toward wholeness. You lose the desire as you achieve wholeness.
Or
4b) You confuse the object of that desire with the wholeness that it represents, and you spend your life chasing the desire. This makes you cling to your false less-than-whole identity, because it is only that identity that keep the desire alive. As long as the desire is alive, you can fulfill it. But you will never be whole.
4a leads to 5) Once you are sufficiently free of your own false identity of being less-than-whole, you can begin to help others realize that they too can be whole. At this point, you want to inculcate in them the desire to make themselves whole. As they cultivate this desire, and their lives lead them into the places they need to be do become whole again, you can help them. As they become whole, they can help others…
Caveat: This is neither easy, painless, nor fun (well, not all the time). But it is truly satisfying.
