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[Joseph Gray]

It was actually  a joke,
I've been reading some "ego" stuff lately, sorry a bit obscure.

The below is from Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth".

"The ego loves to complain and feel resentful not only about other
people but also situations.  What you can do to a person, you can also
do to a situation: make it into and enemy.  The implication is always:
This should not be happening; I don't want to be here; I don't want to
be doing this; I'm being treated unfairly.  And the ego's greatest
enemy of all is, of course, the present moment, which is to say, life
itself.

He goes on to say:

"Complaining is not to be confused with informing someone of a mistake
or deficiency so that it can be put right.  And to refrain from
complaining doesn't necessarily mean putting up with bad quality or
behavior.  There is no ego in telling the waiter that your soup is
cold and needs to be heated up - if you stick to the facts, which are
always neutral.  "How dare you serve me cold soup...." That's
complaining.  There is a "me" here that loves to feel personally
offended by the cold soup and is going to make the most of it, a "me"
that enjoys making something wrong.  The complaining we are talking
about is in the service of the ego, not of change.  Sometimes it
becomes obvious that the ego doesn't really want change so that it can
go on complaining.




On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Jon Mitten <jonmitten at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're no loser.  I think she wanted to emphasize the mediocre work, and
> your glaring supremacy rendered her amnesiatic.
>
> Just kidding, everybody shined in that show.
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> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Joseph Gray <josephgray at grauwald.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> my ego is totally hurt that she doesn't bother to provide a photo or a
>> caption for my work (or Caroline's for that matter), nor provides a
>> description or a caption.
>>
>> guess I really am a loser.  (doesn't that make you feel better about
>> yourself, to know that I'm a loser).
>>
>> Enjoy the sun everybody!!!
>>
>> Love,
>> -Joe
>>
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>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Steven Vroom <vroom at vroomjournal.com>
>> wrote:
>> > See it here,
>> > http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/art/archives/142243.asp
>> > Vroom Journal
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