Love and Ego
Jan, thanks for having me back…
It seems to me that most human beings are aware of having a greater nature and a lesser; a more expansive, generous self, and a self full of agitated emotions.
The terminology gets tricky because people use these two words in so many different ways, but I call the one love and the other ego.
With young children, both these dimensions of being human are out in the open. I found my work as an elementary school counselor helpful in forming my understanding of human nature.
This is my first comment to a new post today at Jan Lundy's Awake is Good.
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And when do we start to love the earth itself, when do we come to think the world of the world - and what happens with further delay?
Global Warning:
New York, Boston "Directly in Path" of Sea Level Rise
By 2100 visitors to Boston could be parking their boats, not their cars, in Harvard Yard. Major cities in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada are directly in the path of the greatest rise in sea level if Greenland continues to melt due to global warming…”
Christine Dell'Amore, National Geographic News
May 28, 2009
It seems to me that most human beings are aware of having a greater nature and a lesser; a more expansive, generous self, and a self full of agitated emotions.
The terminology gets tricky because people use these two words in so many different ways, but I call the one love and the other ego.
With young children, both these dimensions of being human are out in the open. I found my work as an elementary school counselor helpful in forming my understanding of human nature.
This is my first comment to a new post today at Jan Lundy's Awake is Good.
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And when do we start to love the earth itself, when do we come to think the world of the world - and what happens with further delay?
Global Warning:
New York, Boston "Directly in Path" of Sea Level Rise
By 2100 visitors to Boston could be parking their boats, not their cars, in Harvard Yard. Major cities in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada are directly in the path of the greatest rise in sea level if Greenland continues to melt due to global warming…”
Christine Dell'Amore, National Geographic News
May 28, 2009
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5 Comments:
So glad you are at my site again, today. Thank you!
Thanks for having me again -
It resonates with your story about Martin Luther...
Sometimes in flashes of inspiration we see how simple the spirit can be! Let's believe...
TIMJAMZ: That connection makes sense to me. Humanity's ego issues and the unending stream of troubles people create for themselves and others on that basis have been keeping the environment on the back burner.
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