Thursday, August 25, 2005

you think everyone should like you?

would you trust them if they did? wouldn't you start to wonder what they had up their sleeve if nobody ever said anything critical about you ever? if you think that you're better than everyone else, then what do you care what they think about you, anyway? do you want a bunch of people for whom you have little respect to approve of you? why? approval and disapproval are only temporary conditions and constantly leave you chasing after more. why not just let go?

"Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first." Goenka