Pity verses love

 To the average conditioned mind, pity equals being loved. Therefore, we cling to all of the unpleasant things and frequently rehash them so that we can enjoy the self pity and thus feel loved, as when we were a child cuddled by a mother when hurt. Self pity is emotional masturbation. I have to resent in order to feel sorry for myself, which is SENTIMENTALITY. Sentimentality means a ‘sickly’ mentality. Most people equate sentimentality with love. 

From Notes

 Agape can best be described as: I see that whatever you are doing, at the moment of doing, you feel is either right, proper, or justified, or you wouldn’t be able to do it. 

Agape

 Agape: understanding that anything I or another ever did is doing or will do is felt at the time of doing to be right or proper or justified with the light that person has at that time

Teaching ideas

 13. We can live with no emergencies, which is true living. In conditioned living there is an unending series of emergencies.

14. There is one person in the world you’re always going to live with. That’s you.

15. If you want those around you to like you, you have to like yourself.

16. Agape:  able to see from another’s viewpoint.

17. Everything that happens to us is a gift so that we might evolve.

Transformation

 

 

The picture of man