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RE: Are my actions born out of Love or Fear?

in #life8 years ago

@kyriacos, I believe you are trying to apply your prior conceptions of what the words "love" and "fear" mean to my discussion. I encourage you to try to ignore what those words mean to you in other contexts and understand them the way I am intending them to be used. Language is limited, unfortunately, and words often get reused with different meanings and conflating those meanings leads to miscommunication.

When I speak of the consciousness modality called Love, I am referring to a selfless state of mind that seeks to understand and be more aware of one's surroundings and the people one interacts with, and how one's actions affect his surroundings and other people.

When I say Fear, I'm referring to the mindset that tunes all of that out and focuses only on one's own perspective, one's own needs, and places a high emphasis on how the self feels and what the self wants, ignoring the needs of others or the effects one's actions has on his surroundings.

I do not contend that this is the only valid way to think about human consciousness; however, it is a powerful one. It is unwise to cling to one particular model or worldview as "the best one" and ignore all the others because of their imperfections. All human models of understanding are imperfect, and we are well-served to understand as many models as possible, so as to combine their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses.

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