Felling Sorry For Yourself?

[Guest guest]

I sometimes wonder if ( with or without intention) we engender a lack

of compassion in others by exhibiting an intense capacity to feel

sorry for ourselves, and thereby express the lack of selflessness

that is beneficial to our character in acquiring the quality of contentment.

On the other hand if we respond to this capacity in others with aggression,

or a comforting demeanor that reinforces this capacity and its negative

effect,

are we not also expressing this same lack of selflessness.

Ultimately we are required to discern the difference between imagined

and real pain in ourselves, and another, which is fraught with difficulty

and best approached from a selfless perspective.

Mace