self respect
This topic was created in the Scorpio forum by scorpio_wreck on Thursday, January 31, 2008 and has 18 replies.
?The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs...To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference."
i think a lot of the posts lately, including my own, could benefit from this wisdom.
i think a lot of the posts lately, including my own, could benefit from this wisdom.
one things for damned sure....it'll put you to the test......definitely something this Virguy is still getting right.....saying that you have no power (claiming that it's life around you that influences your force and THEY take it from you in effect you're too powerless to do much of anything on your own) is to forfeit in general. I'd rather do something and fail than to have someone tell me it can't be done. Personally I thrive on personal challenges, and gauntlets....they'll transform you.....heal you and make you better. Life is progression, struggle and evolution....I'm fighting for my personal best in everything I do, and say.....It's the desire to grow that makes me want to go through pain others throw at me...I'm a glutton for punishement I guess....
Very wise words, SW ... one has to have thier minds open to make discernments for what actually IS in truth, for what it's really worth, good or bad, without remaining impartial to what the self desires to know, or admit .. and to not be able to do this, blinds a person to what they only want to comprehend, life then is limited because one can only see what is within the bonds of false light.
A shadow of darkness, disguised within the lightness of an illuminated veil called ignorance.
This shroud of ignorance has been put in place to protect from fear. For the ignorant to accept fear, means to accept vulnerability and failure, which would inflict torment to self-righteousness.
The wise knows, the ones who can accept they can be true to themselves, regardless of error or uncertainty ... that to know your limits and to accept your inequities, isn't failure at all and no need to fear .. for this knowledge that you can remain indifferent is success because it allows you to not HAVE to hurt, or pain .... what effects your life is your choice. It's always been a choice.
Nobody has to be a victim to self-torment because they were too afraid to look into the darkness .. for inside the darkness is the truth.
A shadow of darkness, disguised within the lightness of an illuminated veil called ignorance.
This shroud of ignorance has been put in place to protect from fear. For the ignorant to accept fear, means to accept vulnerability and failure, which would inflict torment to self-righteousness.
The wise knows, the ones who can accept they can be true to themselves, regardless of error or uncertainty ... that to know your limits and to accept your inequities, isn't failure at all and no need to fear .. for this knowledge that you can remain indifferent is success because it allows you to not HAVE to hurt, or pain .... what effects your life is your choice. It's always been a choice.
Nobody has to be a victim to self-torment because they were too afraid to look into the darkness .. for inside the darkness is the truth.
fuming, the notion of self-respect is only limiting if you have no self respect...it is important to remember that the fight for self-respect and self-worth is not won only once, but is a battle that must be fought every day in order to be happy. this world is programmed to bring us down...we're taught that we don't mean anything, that we're powerless to help ourselves and other people. we're born with nothing and as life goes on we have even less and less to work with. so in my mind at least, there is no finality or closure to acceptance, it is a dynamic and constantly evolving process...
as human beings we're caught in this fantastic and intimidating process of trying to make sense of the world around us with a single, infinitely colored kaleidoscope, but how can we even begin to understand what we see unless we understand that we are kaleidoscopes ourselves...?
p.s. p-angel,
i totally agree...but then, we seem to agree on lots of things ;D
as human beings we're caught in this fantastic and intimidating process of trying to make sense of the world around us with a single, infinitely colored kaleidoscope, but how can we even begin to understand what we see unless we understand that we are kaleidoscopes ourselves...?
p.s. p-angel,
i totally agree...but then, we seem to agree on lots of things ;D
Spiritual programming .. this is the foundation of our whole lives.
You are sin, you are wrong, you are nothing .... one direction is given to find yourself. And this direction is not self-fulfilling, it's only in place to fulfill an invisible entities pride.
Life's path itself is ambiguous .. we cannot see the end, we have to close our minds to all knowledge and reasoning .. and HOPE for a reward be given in the end. And this reward in the end is the life itself .. IF there is an end. Even an ending, and whether it's obtainable is left in the balance for us not to question.
This program is so obscure, yet so deeply rooted as our goal in life to find that it has become our subconscious reactions, decisions and judgements in all of life.
Respect for the self cannot be something that we bestow upon ourselves, because we aren't deserving of it. We aren't deserving of anything that might empower us to live a more fulfilling life for our own sense of self-worth .. we will therefore spend a lifetime seeking retribution at the discretion of another to decide whether we are worthy enough for self-respect yet.
When in reality .... we have it within ourselves to fulfill our own prophecy, make our own legacy. We ARE worthy of ourselves to honor and respect.
Someday, I hope everybody realizes this. I liked your analogy of the kaleidescope .. your mind sees much like mine does. Not only are we our own problems, we are also our own solutions .. and it's all within our own power to know that we are.
You are sin, you are wrong, you are nothing .... one direction is given to find yourself. And this direction is not self-fulfilling, it's only in place to fulfill an invisible entities pride.
Life's path itself is ambiguous .. we cannot see the end, we have to close our minds to all knowledge and reasoning .. and HOPE for a reward be given in the end. And this reward in the end is the life itself .. IF there is an end. Even an ending, and whether it's obtainable is left in the balance for us not to question.
This program is so obscure, yet so deeply rooted as our goal in life to find that it has become our subconscious reactions, decisions and judgements in all of life.
Respect for the self cannot be something that we bestow upon ourselves, because we aren't deserving of it. We aren't deserving of anything that might empower us to live a more fulfilling life for our own sense of self-worth .. we will therefore spend a lifetime seeking retribution at the discretion of another to decide whether we are worthy enough for self-respect yet.
When in reality .... we have it within ourselves to fulfill our own prophecy, make our own legacy. We ARE worthy of ourselves to honor and respect.
Someday, I hope everybody realizes this. I liked your analogy of the kaleidescope .. your mind sees much like mine does. Not only are we our own problems, we are also our own solutions .. and it's all within our own power to know that we are.
i think p-angels point was, looking for self-worth is counter productive...it's something that is understood through experience.
t/a .. the first part of my last post was describing how this programming makes us erroneously believe we don't have the power within ourselves. I was just philosophizing about how it came about that we, as humans, feel like respect, among others, can only be given to us if we have proven ourselves to be worth.
Sorry about the confusion.
My belief is the bottom part ..
Sorry about the confusion.
My belief is the bottom part ..
Right .. it belongs to us already, it doesn't have to be sought.
Cool, I love to read about spiritual growth and enlightenment.
Thanks for the link .. I'll truly enjoy the read.
Thanks for the link .. I'll truly enjoy the read.
""My mind goes awry just looking at your photo. What did you just say? I had to look up bestow.""
Woman! Where's your dignity?!
Woman! Where's your dignity?!
LOL @ FS... i love it, am getting some good flirting tips. keep 'em coming.
LOL, i love you crab
Self-respect ah lubly jubly....have it in plenty...everyone should....respect thyself first and foremost then others will respect you..
Respect and admiration..two keywords in my life vocab...as they should be for everyone!...
Respect and admiration..two keywords in my life vocab...as they should be for everyone!...
FS...was trying to pay you a compliment. your comments to t/a had put a smile on my face when i read them, it was cute...
i say we all just have a threesome and get it over with. this is how i usually solve my problems and it always works! ;D
too young? i can put on a grey wig and grow a beard and neither of us will know the wiser ;D
crab, where have you been all my life?
I think you can never have too much self-respect. The more positive you see yourself, the more positive you will view everything and everyone else around you. You are your own best friend, after all. I think it's rather selfish to always be dissing yourself, or in the habit of self-deprication. If you make a mistake, don't torment, get back on the horse, and try again. We learn just as much from what we don't accomplish in life. And your mind believes whatever you keep telling it. Appreciate yourself for who you are, not who you arn't. In short take care of yourself, and the world will follow..
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