Sista Destee,
My aunt Shirley tells me about when her mother in law was staying with them and became bedridden. She confessed that at first she had hated Shirley for marrying her son because she had always had it in her mind that if anything hapened to her her son would take care of her. But she said she came to love Shirley because Shirley took better care of her than her son did.
That is the beauty of human relationships. They are not static. Thhey are dynamic. You don't get all the good guys lined up over here and all the bad guys lined up over there. You don't find all your friends in one corner and all your enemies in another.
I am not saying there aren't some ugly evil piople in this world: white supremist and other psychotic psychopathic folkd. But the average person is not psycopathic. The average person is a study in contradictions trying to understand and wanting to be understood. Some do it more or less successfully than others depending on whether they properly interpret their experiences.
The purpose of knowledge is to make us better people by moving us from where we are to where we should be. That's why nothing that we learn is written in stone. As soon as we thnk we've learned our lesson something else happens to teach us the exact opposite. This is because we tend to take things to extremes. At each end of the spectrum there is a lesson that will push us back in the opposite direction untilj we learn to strike a balance. The longer it takes us to strike that balance the more frusttration and confusion we will experience in life.
Sista I have watched you grow since I came here five years ago (and it will be five years next month in March). And you have been a part of my own development as a person helping me to shed the pain and anger that was bottled up inside me. When the student is ready...you know the rest. We don't have to ask to be teachers. It's just when we give what's inside of us and it's what smaddy needs at the time they need it. That's how the Creater allows us to participate in creation.
My aunt Shirley tells me about when her mother in law was staying with them and became bedridden. She confessed that at first she had hated Shirley for marrying her son because she had always had it in her mind that if anything hapened to her her son would take care of her. But she said she came to love Shirley because Shirley took better care of her than her son did.
That is the beauty of human relationships. They are not static. Thhey are dynamic. You don't get all the good guys lined up over here and all the bad guys lined up over there. You don't find all your friends in one corner and all your enemies in another.
I am not saying there aren't some ugly evil piople in this world: white supremist and other psychotic psychopathic folkd. But the average person is not psycopathic. The average person is a study in contradictions trying to understand and wanting to be understood. Some do it more or less successfully than others depending on whether they properly interpret their experiences.
The purpose of knowledge is to make us better people by moving us from where we are to where we should be. That's why nothing that we learn is written in stone. As soon as we thnk we've learned our lesson something else happens to teach us the exact opposite. This is because we tend to take things to extremes. At each end of the spectrum there is a lesson that will push us back in the opposite direction untilj we learn to strike a balance. The longer it takes us to strike that balance the more frusttration and confusion we will experience in life.
Sista I have watched you grow since I came here five years ago (and it will be five years next month in March). And you have been a part of my own development as a person helping me to shed the pain and anger that was bottled up inside me. When the student is ready...you know the rest. We don't have to ask to be teachers. It's just when we give what's inside of us and it's what smaddy needs at the time they need it. That's how the Creater allows us to participate in creation.