It's hard to believe that we have a nature that would rather destroy someone else -- punish them, resent them -- than see itself as it is. Most of us still don't believe it, but when things don't happen the way we want them to, what becomes of us? What do we express? You know the answer, don't you?
We would actually rather put someone or something else into a crucible than see our own weakness. Rather than see we are not what we believe ourselves to be, we will do anything to preserve our sense of self.
Our so-called "morality" is predicated on what we have to do to keep from seeing ourselves as we are. And so, we fall into painful states of frustration and anger if we're unable to do what we want to do, if we're unable to get others to be what we want them to be, or we can't pull off what we've imagined.
Then, as part of the frustration that finds something or someone to blame for it, comes the inevitable justification of why we had to be like that. Or, if we weren't this way, then nothing would change. Really? How about because we are this way, nothing changes!
We're meant to see ourselves through another level of self that doesn't judge what it sees. Instead, it understands that what we're given to see as the reason for why we are the way we are can never change why we are the way we are. We're not the way we are because of what others are. We are the way we are, and others are here to show us the way we are. Everything that we do is intended to be a mirror in which we're exposed to a nature within ourselves -- a nature that doesn't see itself and that doesn't want to see itself.
There's only one way for a man or a woman to change the kind of human being they are. It isn't by changing others. It's not by changing this or that. It's not by getting people to agree. The only way to change ourselves is to actually see ourselves the way we are.
