Work Concept Details
Concept Name:
Sacraficing our Suffering
Short Description:
Concept Points:
- Must smash Pride, Vanity, Self-Complacency, Selfishness, Self-Esteem, etc.
- Must change to become different, the change is giving up what we all love most: our suffering.
- It is Ordinary Mechanical Suffering that must be sacrificed, not Intentional Suffering.
- Uless we become conscious of a thing, we can't sacrafice it.
- Takes the form of: If only's
- Mechanical Suffering is Fraudulant! This is a keynote to what to Sacrafice.
- False Suffering closes us. Real Suffering opens us up to higher levels.
- Involves destroying the Emotional Center; it's likes and dislikes.
- We must begin to Think differently, in different ways.
- Sacrafice - means to make Holy (that to which all personal connection has been relinquished) or conscious.
- "People imagine they have something to sacrifice. There is only one thing they have to sacrifice and that is their suffering." - G
- "A man in this Work must eventually begin to know what Conscious Suffering is compared with Mechanical Suffering." - G
- "I have already said before that sacrifice is necessary," said G. "Without sacrifice nothing can be attained. But if there is anything in the world that people do not understand it is the idea of sacrifice. They think they have to sacrifice something that
- "Another thing that people must sacrifice is their suffering. It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. Man is made in such a way that he is never so much atta
- We have to feel that Life and Others owe us nothing! - (as we cancel the debts owed to us - Lord's Prayer)
- To change oneself one must be free from petty attatchments and forms of imagination about oneself.
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