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Standing Up or Letting Go

  • Posted: Monday, June 28, 2010
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Question:

Where is the line between "not having an issue with anything" as you spoke of in The Genesis of Love, and enabling or allowing? Issues like verbal and physical aggression, mobbing, abuse of any kind, denigration, somebody "acting out"... For example, where would India be without Ghandi standing up to the British Empire? Would Love have had an issue with the British Empire? I don't understand where I must "forget myself" and where I must stand up for something, or perhaps prevent someone from getting seriously hurt. (From student correspondence)

Answer:

There is no "simple" answer to any hypothetical question such as you raise here... however the following idea, if you consider it closely, may help you gain further insight into the differences you raise: One should always try to "forget oneself" whenever one's feelings about a matter are more centered around oneself -- one's image, opinion or pride -- than they are with the event that stirs these sentiments; and one should stand up for what is right whenever the cost of that stance costs one something real, as in one's image, opinion, or pride.

  • Guy Finley

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