The Journey to Respect...
Posted 04-25-2009 at 10:44 AM by robbie_d
As most will be aware each life we inherit, necessitates the fulfillment of a purpose: and its reason...
Life is a voyage of discovery, during which we will - without exception - experience all its many facets... How we react to those elements and the outcome of our words, thoughts and deeds; will no doubt determine whether or not we move on in the next life: or ride the same carousel yet again...
One of the many things we will need to address during those incarnations is the varied elements of respect - and its many subsidiaries...
Above all else this element is of prime importance, with the principal factor being that - attributed to ourselves... Without respect, there can be no meaningful road ahead: that will lead to any purposeful resolution...
In essence - where there is no 'self respect' there is no understanding of the concept, or the need to demonstrate such to others...
We are born in ignorance, which some might consider, is the half-way point in the spectrum of humility and arrogance... Due to a lack of awareness, few if any - at the start of life's journey - would turn and face humility, welcoming it with open arms, when the cuisine displayed along the pathway to arrogance, appears more desirable...
Few foresee that the pathway to arrogance is one of deception and self delusion, which has, at its terminus, the inevitable turning point, where all will change lanes and begin descending the long slippery slope to humility...
There is no escape from the Karmic consequences propagated during the upwards journey... Such may well determine that which will be experienced on the downwards slide and; the effort required climbing back up the hill of despair and despondency: towards the light of experience and - the significance of respect...
I know this to be so... For I have made that journey...
Naturally, these considerations are from my personal perspective of life… Not necessarily that of others…
Life is a voyage of discovery, during which we will - without exception - experience all its many facets... How we react to those elements and the outcome of our words, thoughts and deeds; will no doubt determine whether or not we move on in the next life: or ride the same carousel yet again...
One of the many things we will need to address during those incarnations is the varied elements of respect - and its many subsidiaries...
Above all else this element is of prime importance, with the principal factor being that - attributed to ourselves... Without respect, there can be no meaningful road ahead: that will lead to any purposeful resolution...
In essence - where there is no 'self respect' there is no understanding of the concept, or the need to demonstrate such to others...
We are born in ignorance, which some might consider, is the half-way point in the spectrum of humility and arrogance... Due to a lack of awareness, few if any - at the start of life's journey - would turn and face humility, welcoming it with open arms, when the cuisine displayed along the pathway to arrogance, appears more desirable...
Few foresee that the pathway to arrogance is one of deception and self delusion, which has, at its terminus, the inevitable turning point, where all will change lanes and begin descending the long slippery slope to humility...
There is no escape from the Karmic consequences propagated during the upwards journey... Such may well determine that which will be experienced on the downwards slide and; the effort required climbing back up the hill of despair and despondency: towards the light of experience and - the significance of respect...
I know this to be so... For I have made that journey...
Naturally, these considerations are from my personal perspective of life… Not necessarily that of others…
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