--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@>
> wrote:
> >
> > It's interesting how Bright Light Types sometimes
> > suffer despair before awakening. Buckminster
> > Fuller and Ekhart Tolle contemplated suicide,
> > Byron Katie raged, Maharishi was despondent.
> > And their responses were to serve others.
>
> Good insight, Patrick. There is something about
> the nature of selfless service that is...uh...
> selfless. Focus on the welfare of others and
> you take that focus away from the puny self and
> its drama queen antics and its pitiful whine,
> "Me! Me! Focus on me! I'm the important one
> in the room, I'm the star...focus on me!"
>
> And then what seems to happen is that the wanabee
> starlet self, starved for attention and not find-
> ing any, just gives up the quest for fame and
> stardom and packs her bags and goes back to
> Olkahoma to work as a waitress, leaving the Self
> to enjoy the bright lights of Hollywood. :-)
>
Sounds like a prescription for schizophrenia. Using the above I'd
say the self becomes the limo driver in Hollywood.
