It is essential in life to look at ourselves, and see ourselves as we actually are, not as we imagine our-selves to be, or even as we perceive and like us to be. Once we achieve that, and only then we can truly observe and understand the complex needs, perplexities and various difficulties of others, putting ourselves in their situations and their tragic lives. We'd have to detach ourselves from our own selfish ego, only then we can reach total objectivity and sincerity .
To achieve levels of compassion, harmonious relations with the other, genuine mutual understanding and interaction, to apply to ourselves some of the historical proverbial commands, "Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you." An important part of the modern way of thinking and it's literally all over our world, is to reject religions and their different sects and denominations.
Uproot them from our lives and daily habits and thoughts as cheap moralizing, outdated ceremonial rituals, and a total waste of money and time honoring and glorifying some imaginary fictitious deities, everywhere thousands upon thousands of healthy men and women subject themselves regularly, on daily, weekly, and monthly basis, to all sorts of meaningless sacrifices and restrictions, like voluntary fasting, unrealistic and torturous celibacy regiments, wasting their time on purification rituals and time and money consuming pilgrimage, reiterated prayers several times daily and weekly, all for what ??
In our times it's considered by all learned men and women as an exercise in futility, simply out of ignorance and naivety, and mostly to answer invisible characteristics of ourselves. Only in societies governed by strict literal theologies, as in Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, Iran, Saudi, as well as many new leaderships influencing and playing the heinous religious card for their own benefit. They all play and act their invisible sides for deceiving their counterparts.
Maurice Nicoll, described this invisibility of man superbly ; "We all can see other people's bodies directly, we see their lips moving, their eyes opening and shutting, the lines of their mouths and faces changing, and their bodies expressing themselves in action, but people themselves are invisible. If the invisible side of people were discerned as easily as the visible side, we would all live in a new humanity. But we only live in a humanity of the visible appearance. All our thoughts, emotions, feelings, imagination, reveries, dreams, fantasies etc...are invisible and make part of the realm of the invisible. All that belong to our scheming, planning, plotting, secrets, ambitions, all our hopes, fears, doubts, perplexities, all our affections, speculations, pondering, vacuities, uncertainties, all our desires, longing, appetites, sensations, our likes, dislikes, aversions, attractions, loves and hate,all our compassion, all are themselves invisible, but they constitute nonetheless " Ourselves."
These traits of human visibility and invisibility are difficult things to grasp, they constitute the drama of the visible and the invisible, it is the drama of modern existence and the politics of many entities across the world. Hobbes's description of the life of man as; solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Most of our actual spiritual, secular, social or political leaders nowadays, add big time to these attributes, we tend to ignore the other, as well as the better ones.
For when gods and or political leaders fight among themselves, men have to pay the price, even die. Sapiens all over have become in our times more rich in means, and more poor in ends.
My, as always many thanks for your attention.....
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