Post by faune on Feb 26, 2011 22:38:56 GMT -5
Much in a meeting or social gathering of any kind depends on one's own atitude. If you are overflowing with love, gratitude and praise this is what you will receive from the meeting.
If on the other hand you are full of suspicion, meanness of spirit and criticism, you will experience and sense lack of love. We get what we give and nothing comes for free no matter what we go in for in life.
Whatever you decide to do, wherever you go be a giver. Take a generous view, be nonjudgmental, be happy. We reap what we sow.
Not always true. Your advice is a slight, over generalization, but I agree, you are mostly right. Most of the time we see what we want to see. But sometimes, when you see an innocent getting beaten, they really are getting beaten.
TS, I agree, we tend to see what we want to see. If something is amiss, we are conditioned to "rationalize" it to be the person at fault, regardless of the brow-beating he is enduring. Like you said, "when you see an innocent getting a beaten, they really are getting beaten." That basically is the problem with the 2x2's in a nutshell -- they are brainwashed to look the other way and to not to feel their real emotions. This shutting down effect to keep the status quo hinders spiritual and emotional growth and eventually will backfire over time. Trying to be a "Pollyanna" when things are out of line will eventually affect your own spirit. Real life cannot be lived in a bubble, you have to feel and experience it and respond to abuse when it is obvious.