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What causes you (and me) to be trapped is what we call personal importance. Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about “me”.
Nothing other people do is because of you.
Don Miguel Ruiz, MD
OMG, if everything isn’t about you (me), then who is it about?
In the situations I have witnessed, there is no divine intervention. All we have is each other. We create our own problems, and it is up to us to solve them. Deliberately to remove oneself from this dialogue is a way of turning one’s back and confirms the sad proposition that perfection of means but a confusion of aims is the misfortune of our time.
James Nachtwey
The Inferno
Is what I am about to do today, tomorrow, in any moment, going to move us toward or away from a world that works for everyone?
Love is a gift.
It must be given without expectation of return.
If we expect something in return for our loving-kindness,
doesn’t that mean it is a commodity to be exchanged for something else we desire?
What kind of feeling arises when what we receive as a gift comes with an expectation of return?
