Self Is Never at Risk, But Ego Is Always at Risk
- Ego will help you to recognize, remove, and replace your ego: a.k.a. self-esteem.
“Don’t regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.” —Epictetus, Enchiridion
“Remember that the ruling facility is invincible, when self-collected it is satisfied with itself.” —Marcus Aurelius
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RISK & DANGER
- Self is never at risk.
- There is no open door in the back of your head that people can enter through to get to your self.
- Your self is safe from all people.
- Your self has never failed.
- Your self can never fail though your behavior can fail often.
- Your self can never be inferior or superior but only the same.
- Your self cannot be changed except by its creator and that is neither your nor other people.
Self is not doing but being.
- Your self can never be either superior or inferior though your behavior usually is.
- Your self is untouchable by human beings.
People Don’t Control Your Being
- No one, no not even you, can make your self to increase or decrease in any manner.
- Your self cannot grow, though your thoughts about it may increase a thousandfold.
Correct Actions & Thoughts, Not Beings
- You cannot correct your self but only your behavior.
- Your thinking can be wrong but not your self.
Self Unbroken, Ego Broken
- No self has ever been broken, wronged, destroyed, damaged, hurt, pressured, torn apart, crushed, or harmed in any way—but every ego has.
- No one can control, create, change, or recreate your self but God.
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3D: Daily Dose: 2018
#Self #Safe: 2018-03-28
- It is true that your ego is often not safe from human attack, but your self is always safe from human attack.
- It is true that your body is often not safe from human attack, but your self is always safe from human attack.
- It is true that your pride is often not safe from human attack, but your self is always safe from human attack.
- It is true that your self-esteem is often not safe from human attack, but your self is always safe from human attack.
- It is true that your self-confidence is often not safe from human attack, but your self is always safe from human attack.
3d: Daily Dose of Discernment: 2020
#Self-Inflicted #Injury: 2020-08-10
- Injurious words do not exist because words have no magical powers to cause harm.
- Injurious thoughts do not exist because thoughts have no claws or teeth with which to harm anyone.
- Injured selves do not exist because no person can enter into another person in order to harm them.
- What exists is self-inflicted pain by ego (negative self-concepts and self-images are owned).
- What exists is imaginary injuries to imaginary selves (Frankenstein monsters composed of self-concepts and self-images).
#Movie #Screen: 2020-08-11
- Moving images of fire do not burn a movie screen or your mind’s screen, but they do burn when played on your heart.
- Moving images of wind do not ruffle a movie screen or your mind’s screen, but they do ruffle when played on your identity.
- Moving images of sunlight do not melt a movie screen or your mind’s screen, but they do melt when played on your heart.
- Moving images of rain do not dampen a movie screen or your mind’s screen, but they do dampen when played on your heart.
- Moving images of lightning do not strike and hurt a movie screen or your mind’s screen, but they do strike and hurt when played on your identity.
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YOUR SELF CANNOT—
- Your self cannot fail.
- Your self cannot age.
- Your self cannot grow.
- Your self cannot be at risk.
- Your self cannot be wrong.
- Your self cannot be inferior.
- Your self cannot be superior.
- Your self cannot change itself.
- Your self cannot be corrected.
- Your self cannot be something.
- Your self cannot be hurt by people.
- Your self cannot be gotten to by people.
- Your self cannot be known as something.
- Your self cannot be increased or expanded.
- Your self cannot be decreased or diminished.
- Your self cannot develop into something else.
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You Have the Best Safe Space Possible
“True appreciation of his own value will make a man really indifferent to insult.” —Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
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Quotations Various Sources
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“Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.” —J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume IV, p. 8
“If you must be right, then you fail to learn and so lose.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Is not virtue a negation of becoming?” —J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Vol. III, p. 204
“No one will hurt you, you will have no enemies, and you will not be harmed.” —Epictetus
“That which is evil to thee and harmful has its foundation only in the mind.” —Marcus Aurelius
“The condition and characteristic of a vulgar person is that he never expects either benefit or hurt from himself, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is that he expects all hurt and benefit from himself.” —Lucretius
“The key is nonidentification with sensation. … Identification with sensation makes the self.” —J. Krishnamurti, Can Humanity Change? p. 47
“The soul is undiscovered though explored forever to a depth beyond report.” —Heraclitus
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“The way to do is be.” —Lao Tzu
“True appreciation of his own value will make a man really indifferent to insult.” —Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
“What a man has in himself is, then, the chief element in his happiness.” —Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
“What you don’t know can’t hurt your ego, but it can hurt your ability to survive or thrive.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“When, therefore, anyone provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion that provokes you.” —Epictetus
“Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.” —Genesis 9:6
“You can be right and lose or you can be wrong, learn, and win.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“You can be right or you can be happy.” —Anonymous
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