@TornadoNate Graciously put. And how odd that we humans don't naturally see; we have to be taught how to see. Niebuhr, by the by, clarified that not only is being kind no protection from the prey of delusion, but that kind folk, _especially_, underestimate our own capacity for self deception.
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Conscious people do not scapegoat; unconscious people do almost nothing else. Projection itself is not the problem. The problem occurs when we don’t examine those projections. The awakened person has found some degree of detachment from their own narcissistic emotional responses. That’s why the Buddha and Jesus say with one voice, “Be awake.” Jesus talks about “staying watchful” (Matthew 25:13, Luke 12:37, Mark 13:33-37), and “Buddha” means “I am awake” in Sanskrit. Richard Rohr
We live in the age of 'Anti'. Anti, anti, anti. As the floods of change in our world continue to rise, so do the complexities and uncertainties reinforcing the tendency for individual positions to polarize around cultural extremes of thought and belief. 1/
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