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A Series of Miracles
The world we have created is so superficial, so artificial, so ugly if one looks behind the curtain; and we decorate the curtain, hoping that everything will somehow come right. Most people are unfortunately not very earnest about life except, perhaps, when it comes to making money, gaining power, or pursuing sexual excitement. They do not want to face the other complexities of life, and that is why, when their children grow up, they are as immature and unintegrated as their parents, constantly battling with themselves and with the world.
— J. Krishnamurti
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When people are overly identified with the good they can become a little dangerous, in their own way. Whilst they can signal their virtues and their exceptionally high ideals and want to save the world(and even cockroaches from suffering). It can also be like they might not have recognized any shadow within themselves….
And whilst they might have owned the good they can have a really bad vision on you. They are compassionate, for example, but you are not. And there is always the need for someone else as a scapegoat for the shadow. I don’t know, I have always been suspicious of being too good, because the shadow might creep up and get me from behind. And if you follow Robert Johnson it might be better to own your own shadow (and the shadow isn’t all bad, it sometimes just…
