I have read in many different books that ignorance isn't what we don't know, it's what we think we do know...and are dead wrong about, all the while refusing to open our minds to another view.
I am right. There...that's the most dangerous thought we can hold onto. Dangerous because we must first believe our self right on the primary level of learning in order to ever move to the second level and on. If we're stuck holding to our idea, we're stuck in self.
It is the holding to a thought, unwilling to open to another way of looking at the situation, that proves our danger. Because there is no need to declare our self wrong even. We only need to let a little light in...into our mind...to expand our thoughts on the matter.
Of course it is fear of being wrong about a particular topic that keeps our mind in permanent lockdown. Maybe a deeper fear is of the other someone being right...which sets off ego's alarm bells for sure. I can feel old Lucy starting to stir now.
I think that's why humility has such a hard time of it. Let's face it...we don't get a bellyful of humility when we're basking in how sweet I am right feels.
Here's an off-the-top-of-my-head rule: If we don't feel humbled when we "win" a disagreement, we've probably just bought a resentment. We bask at our own peril because we have not taken the first necessary step...considered and admitted our part in the thing to begin with.
There's our humility...that dreaded but necessary (or vice versa) act if we are ever to live free of our own self-will. Happy and joyous are side bennies of that freedom.
Thank you.
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