Had the annual dermatology exam this morning, nothing to worry about, pleasant banter with youthful looking Dr B and his nurses. See you next year.
Took longish walk in parking lot back to car, sis L called with details of the hellacious sufferings in two branches of the family this week. It’s eating her up. I could only recommend, be the still point in the hurricane. Can’t offer answers if there’s no logic in the sufferers (or faith, which I neglected to say). I, too, know her compulsion to say “do this” one time. But then say it no more, because we also know that advice is turned back to attack the giver; the hand that would feed is bitten. It must be human nature, a primary manifestation of Mr Gurdjieff’s upside down view of reality.
BT p. 107
As regards their general ‘psyche’ itself and its fundamental
traits, no matter upon what part of the surface of their planet they
arise, these traits in all of them have precisely the same
particularities, among them being also that property of the three-
brained beings there, thanks to which on that strange planet
alone in the whole of the Universe does that horrible process
occur among three-brained beings which is called the ‘process of
the destruction of each other’s existence,’ or, as it is called on that
ill-fated planet, ‘war.’
“Besides this chief particularity of their common psyche, there
are completely crystallized in them and there unfailingly become
a part of their common presences—regardless of where they may
arise and exist—functions which exist under the names ‘egoism,’
‘self-love,’ ‘vanity,’ ‘pride,’ ‘self-conceit,’ ‘credulity,’ ‘suggestibility,’
and many other properties quite abnormal and quite
unbecoming to the essence of any three-brained beings
whatsoever.
I think I need another chocolate, please.
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