As we continue through A New Earth, we look at some key points to Chapter Three and the core of the ego."Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you."
“What we react to in another we strengthen in ourselves. One of the things the ego needs to survive is reacting against other people. What you react to in another you strengthen in yourself…”
“What we react to most strongly in others and what we most strongly condemn in others is usually something that we also have, a trait that we also have but that we are unconscious of in ourselves. So when we, for example, become upset if we encounter somebody who is very greedy, or we could become upset about somebody who is dishonest, no matter who, the force of your reaction usually tells you that something in you that you need to look at.”
Question: Who in your life do you consider an enemy? What lessons and blessings have you to learn from that person?
“Whatever you fight, you strengthen and what you resist persists.”
“Complaining is one of the egos favorite strategies for strengthening itself. Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in… Some egos that haven’t got much else to identify with, they can survive on complaining alone. So the continuously you are condemning other people, you’re continuously criticizing, condemning or judging negatively situations that you’re in, your surroundings, other people.”
Question: Who would you be if you did not complain? How would your life be different?
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Coach Carolyn
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