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Becoming is Public Enemy Number One
"Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself."--I Timothy 6:5
Call it what you will--achieving, changing, continuing, developing, evolving, fulfilling, gaining, growing, improving, progressing, reworking, striving, struggling, transforming, trying, working--it is still the same nonsense of becoming.
When you try to become good or better you commit the following errors and-or sins:
- You are acting as if you were God.
- You are assuming you can be without God.
- You are assuming you can do without God.
- You are assuming you can know without God.
- You are attempting to take credit and all credit belongs only to God.
- You are enclosing and encasing yourself in thought.
- You are isolating yourself in thought.
- You are relying on yourself not God.
- You are self-centered and self-absorbed.
- You are trying to exist in relation to yourself instead of in relation to God.
- You assume you can be good when only God is good.
- You do not have the ability to change one thought into another.
- You do not have the ability to control thoughts.
- You do not have the ability to convert one thought into another.
- You have endless pride in your imagined abilities.
- You have endless pride in your imagined judgment.
Instead, practice--
humility, surrender, dependence, emptiness, waiting, service, faith, hope, charity, lowliness, single-mindedness.
And all in relation to God not self.
You will be used by ego or God. If you are not used you are not. Choose becoming and you choose ego. Choose waiting and you choose God.
When you are nothing you are somebody and when you are somebody you are nothing. This is why those who reach the top of success, fortune, and-or fame find both it and themselves to be empty: nothing.
You can be or you can continue.
To continue is to positively add thought to thought, death to death as self, as identity.
To be is to negatively drop everything.
Becoming is the desire to lie, hide, and die under the cover of the ideal.
Becoming is your seeking of a facade for darkness: subconsciousness and unconsciousness.
Becoming is your seeking security for your hidden evil in darkness through pretense.
Becoming is the seeking of safety from the light through covering your evil in darkness with beautiful images.
Becoming is the desire to be secure from exposure to the light through identification with the beautiful.
Becoming is seeking to reframe the evil as good in order to safeguard the evil in darkness.
Becoming is cleaning the outside of the cup that the inside might safely remain unclean.
You cannot continue to be something as things do not continue.
Becoming is the creation of the delusion of psychological time.
Becoming is a reframe for the response of the worm: breaking.
Becoming is the denial of the time of being.
QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."--Matthew 10:39
"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:"--Romans 3:10
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:"--Ephesians 2:8
"The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being."--J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Vol. IV, p.25
"The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody."--Buddhist saying
"He who soars not suffers no fall."--Taoist saying
"The way to do is be."--Lao Tzu
"In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped."--Lao Tzu
"You can grow and develop your ego but not your self."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"You did not create your self, therefore, you cannot change your self."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Reach for it, and you will miss it; let it loose, and it will follow you."--Buddhist saying
"I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something."--Walter Cronkite, famous USA newscaster
"Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also."--Matthew 23:26
"The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men--the man he is and the man he wants to be."--William Feather
"If you must be something then be empty and weak so you are meek."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 175.
"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is."--John L. Spalding
"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."--Ugo Betti
"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."--William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.1
"Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is."--Angelo Patri
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are."--Saint Francis de Sales
"Becoming is disintegrating self."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us."--Isaiah 26:12
"Beings are living and doings are dying."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Response: Trying is Planning to Fail
Cope: Forgiveness Requires Forgiveness
Cope: Humility Is Not Humiliating