SELF-CONCERN v. SELF-PITY

I wonder, are all resentments self-pity based? I have long believed that anger is victim based and that playing the victim is just self-pity on the hoof.

There is a world of difference between self-concern and self-pity, of course. Self-concern is good and necessary and leads to a spiritual understanding of ourselves and others when we stay focused on our Soul's needs.

It is when we give over to our ego's wants that self-concern goes off-track, festering into self-pity...our ego, which always legislates for itself, must find somebody to blame, to pay for us.

We are told that Mahatma Gandhi "vowed to resist injustice, not by violence or retaliation, but through the loving power of nonviolent resistance, which elevates the consciousness of both oppressed and oppressor."

There it is. There's our answer...the consciousness of both oppressed and oppressor is elevated so that both sides come out the winner: We have given up fighting anything and anybody. -- Anonymous

Thank You.