On Jan 1, 2012, at 1:09 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > OK Robin,I tried. I took about two hours and re-read the whole thing and > worked my way through the first 3 posts again with comments. You would not > like any of them. I became increasingly frustrated that we do not share the > same values in how we judge people and how we define friendship. It only > inspired the kind of defensive soul deadening writing that I despise. (Plus I > had to create a soul for it to die so it was no small thing.) You said some > niece things at the end to regain rapport, but it was just too little too > late for me to embrace the spirit of your words. I do appreciate them but > feel too weary from all that went before to have it make much difference. On > their own, outside the dissection of my faults, they might have turned the > tide, I don't know.
What is Enlightenment? Sutra eighty-eight It is knowing that one's boldness and Promethean prophecies are inspired from the Ego of God. -Robin W. Carlsen /in-flated/ 1. puffed out; swollen, pompous; 2. bombas- tic; high-flown; 3. increased or raised beyond what is normal or valid. The Masks of Inflation Inflation wears many different masks: a sense of superiority, vanity, self-satisfaction, a feeling of being special, an overestimation of one's spiritual development and capacities, pride in ones spiritual accomplish- ments and stature, aloofness, the feeling that no one is able to understand one's experience. Each of these is a mask of ego inflation, worn in delusion, with each wearer believing that his or her mask represents the true face. -Mariana Caplan The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of the divine. -St. John of the Cross
