Saturday Stories
August 19, 2017
One of the countless things I'm grateful for is having an
authentic sense of self-worth. The mere fact that I exist, as I learned from my
nonphysical teachers Abraham and Bashar, means that I'm inherently worthy in
the eyes of Creation.
Having said that, I also accept
that I live in a society surrounded by people who are better than I, some
because they really are in any given outer aspect, and some because they want to feel
they are better than everybody else just so they can feel good about themselves.
I'm perfectly fine with that since
I don't feel inferior anyway. What is even more significant is that I don't
feel the need to bring other people down to raise myself.
You can spot the insecure a mile
away. These are the racists, bullies, gossipers, paranoids, bureaucrats,
power-trippers, back-fighters, the self-righteous, the people who spread malice
and intrigue. A person who is far from alignment from is true being has an unstable self-esteem and tends to feel defensive,
and so he lashes out with the very emotions he wallows in – contempt and
hatred.
When I encounter them, I
immediately close them off. If there is one thing I learned from having seen
the dark side of human nature, it is that what a person does to others, he will
do unto you. In other words, if he talks badly about somebody who is not there,
then he is perfectly capable of doing it to you when you're not around.
So, here I am, feeling neither
inferior nor superior to my fellowmen, but I also don't insist that we are
equal in the physical world either. I have met people who are famous,
wealthy, powerful and influential, yet I never felt diminished, not even an
iota, in whatever way.
This is why my appreciation for the
achievements of my fellowmen is genuine. I'm not a lesser person just because
somebody else is more this or more that. To me, people are just different from each
other and there's no need to even compare them, and I rejoice at the diversity
of this beautiful and multicultural kaleidoscope world.
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