What is the difference between true love and selfish love? Love and selfishness

30.09.2019

Just watch why you create a problem. The solution to the problem is at the very beginning, when you first create it - don't create it! You don't have any problems - just understand that.

Don't run from yourself, you can't be anyone else. Osho.

The only person on earth we have the power to change is ourselves Osho.

Don't expect perfection, and don't ask or demand it. Love ordinary people. There is nothing wrong with ordinary people. Ordinary people are extraordinary. Every person is so unique. Respect this uniqueness. Osho.

Sin is when you don't enjoy life. Osho.

I don't have any biography. And everything that is considered a biography is absolutely meaningless. When I was born, in what country I was born - it does not matter. Osho.

The most inhuman act that a person can commit is to turn someone into a thing. Osho.

Everything that is experienced can be stepped over; what is suppressed cannot be overcome. Osho.

The greatest fear in the world is fear of the opinions of others. The moment you are not afraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar resounds in your heart - the roar of freedom. Osho.

The child comes clean, nothing is written on it; there is no indication of who he should be - all dimensions are open to him. And the first thing to understand is that a child is not a thing, a child is a being. Osho

Until you can say "no", your "yes" will not make any sense. Osho

Love is patient, everything else is impatient. Passion is impatient; love is patient. Once you understand that patience means love, you understand everything. Osho.

To fall is a part of Life, to rise to one's feet is its Living. Being Alive is a Gift, and being Happy is your CHOICE. Osho.

Inside every old person there is a young person wondering what happened. Osho.

The head is always thinking about how to get more; the heart always feels like giving more. Osho.

Learn to laugh more. Laughter is as sacred as prayer. Your laughter will open a thousand and one roses in you. Osho.

Only occasionally, very rarely, do you allow someone to enter you. That is what love is. Osho.

When you are sick, call a doctor. But most importantly, call those who love you, because there is no medicine more important than love. Osho.

Suffering is the result of taking life seriously; bliss is the result of the game. Take life as a game, enjoy it. Osho.

Get out of your head and into your heart. Think less and feel more. Do not get attached to thoughts, immerse yourself in sensations... Then your heart will come to life. Osho

A woman in love with you can inspire you to such heights that you never even dreamed of. And she asks for nothing in return. She just needs love. And this is her natural right. Osho.

Before knocking on the right door, a person knocks on thousands of wrong doors. Osho.

Without you, this universe will lose some poetry, some beauty: there will be a lack of song, there will be a lack of notes, there will be an empty gap. Osho.

Reasons are within ourselves, outside are just excuses... Osho

No one has to follow anyone, everyone has to go into their own soul. Osho.

If you can't say "No", your "Yes" is worthless too. Osho.

Any borrowed truth is a lie. Until it is experienced by yourself, it is never true. Osho.

What's wrong with someone laughing for no reason? Why do you need a reason to laugh? A reason is needed to be unhappy; you don't need a reason to be happy. Osho.

When you think you are deceiving others, you are only deceiving yourself. Osho.

If you are calm, the whole world becomes calm for you. It's like a reflection. Everything that you are is fully reflected. Everyone becomes a mirror. Osho.

People believe in the immortality of the soul, not because they know, but because they are afraid. The more cowardly a person is, the more likely it is that he believes in the immortality of the soul - not because he is religious; he's just a coward. Osho.

If you have lied once, then you will be forced to lie a thousand and one times to cover up the first lie. Osho.

In this very moment, you can drop all problems because they are all created by you. Osho.

What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end, it only matters whether you are a happy person or not? Osho.

Make life around you beautiful. And let every person feel that meeting with you is a gift. Osho.

Miracles happen every moment. Nothing else happens. Osho.

Don't take life as a problem, it's a mystery of amazing beauty. Drink from it, it's pure wine! Be full of it! Osho.

Stop thinking about how to get love and start giving. By giving, you receive. There is no other way... Osho

Don't teach others, don't try to change them. It is enough that you change yourself - this will be your message. Osho.

Bliss is the only criterion for life. If you do not feel that life is bliss, then know that you are going in the wrong direction. Osho.

If you can wait forever, you don't have to wait at all. Osho.

If you don't change right now, you will never change. No need for endless promises. You either change or you don't, but be honest. Osho.

To die for anyone, for anything, is the easiest thing in the world. Living for anything is the hardest thing. Osho.

The ego is the part of the soul that is oriented towards the material, external world.

Today we will talk with you about what is standing in the way of your true potential and the discovery of your abilities.

As we chose to follow the path of the heart, information began to come to us about healing and accepting first our feelings and then our emotions. Then we felt the joy of receiving this information and thanked for it. During these periods, clients came to us whom we helped - healed their wounded feelings and emotions. At the same time, we realized that in our suppressed feelings and emotions there is a lot of energy hidden in order to realize our destiny and to discover even greater abilities.

The information came gradually and the feeling of joy inside suggested that we were going in the right direction. if you are now experiencing joy while reading this article, then this information is timely for you and it is time for you to heal your feelings and take your ego as an ally.

Sometimes our mind (ego) still turned on and raised fears and doubts. But we continued to move forward, supporting each other and helping to cope with fears.

It is very important to show love and compassion for yourself on this path. And do not scold yourself for moments of kickbacks and fears. Surround your fear and disbelief with love and acceptance.

Our ego has two "stumbling blocks". It may tend to become either too small or too large. In the first case, it recedes and energetically "hides" in the solar plexus, being in a tense state of fear, anxiety and anxiety. It makes you feel "not good enough", "incapable", makes you feel powerless and in need of others.

Look inside yourself. How do you think of yourself?

Do you think that you cannot cope with the difficulties that you have in your life, that you have too little strength. Do you experience fear and the desire to hide, or do you have difficulty asserting your personal space, or do you make excuses for yourself and seek to escape from reality? These are all forms of too little ego driven by fear or even traumatized.

Or maybe your ego is too big. This also makes itself felt in the area of ​​the solar plexus. Too much ego feels exaggerated and inflated, it wants too much. It exaggerates its capabilities. It constantly feels that without me, nothing here will work. It wants to keep control, and thus limits its own capabilities, because in this case it completely blocks the flow of impulses of the Soul. If you control too much and take responsibility for too much, this is a sign of an exaggerated ego. The ego strives to constantly move forward towards its goals. It keeps you in its narrow vision of the world. Look into yourself. Do you recognize this trait in yourself? Have there been situations in your life when you clung to the goals of the ego, being afraid to let go, to accept?

Usually, both of these aspects of the ego can be found in most people.

The ego is the instrument of the soul to manifest itself as a physical being in time and space.

It gives focus to consciousness. The ego is that part of you that, like a bridge, bridges the span between the non-physical (spiritual) and physical parts of you.

Living under the dictates and demands of the ego has created internal psychological wounds. These wounds are in our emotional body. It is very important to heal these wounds. Surround yourself with love and awareness. Ask yourself the question - who now wants this job, this man or woman, this car or this house? This is the need of my soul or the need of my ego. And be honest with yourself. It is honesty that will allow you to move forward very quickly.

Pride is what prevents you from moving forward - it pushes people away and does not allow you to reach your potentials. You won’t get far with her - you won’t create a truly loving relationship or a big business ...

If you consider yourself better than others, people feel it and do not want to communicate with you.

If you consider yourself worse than others - people also feel this and it is unlikely - you will have successful projects, no matter what you do.

Under the control of the ego, for a long time people's actions and thoughts were based on fear. In the sense that people toughly sought power, recognition and control.

The soul suffered under the yoke of the ego.

There are four stages of healing and transition from living from the ego to living from the heart.

First stage healing and transforming your life involves a transformation from ego to heart to love: you seek to understand the inner pain: accept it, understand its origin and allow it to be.

You see an inner pain that needs to be taken care of and healed in the gentlest and kindest way possible.

You take responsibility for creating all these painful experiences that are still holding you back.

Responsibility is what will help you.

Consider what this word means to you. Perhaps - you will feel tension and even pain inside - you too often took responsibility for everyone and everything and it was very difficult for you. Keep thinking and asking yourself the question - What is responsibility - how does the Creator see it? What is responsibility? And listen to the answers that will come to you. Accept the energy of this word - its true nature.

Then forgive yourself for creating pain and stress.

What does Forgiveness mean to you? - You may be thinking about

that you do not deserve forgiveness or that you are too terrible to forgive yourself or that you are not worthy of forgiveness.

Try to look inside yourself and hear all the objections of your ego. Ask yourself: What is Forgiveness to me as I have always known it and listen to the answer. You will feel love and expansion. Perhaps your tears will flow and you will finally forgive yourself ...
This is the greatest gift you can give to yourself. Forgive yourself for creating all the pain experiences you have in your cells. The memory of which has left scars in your emotional body and does not allow you to move on. Forgive yourself You forgive yourself. Mentally reach out to your Ego and tell him that you love him and that you are ready to befriend him, say that you are ready to heal all experiences based on fear and let them go.

When you consciously choose the path of Love, this is the first step towards freeing yourself from the power of the Ego.

By opening up to the reality of love, the reality of the heart, you let the judgment go. You accept yourself for who you are at this moment in time.

You realize that you are the way you are for a variety of reasons that you now intend to discover and explore.

At the second stage transformation from ego to heart you will come into close contact with yourself. You take a closer look at baggage from the past. You relive (painful) memories.

Memories of present or past lives. Psychological baggage brought from all lifetimes up to the present has shaped your current personality. You can think of this luggage as a suitcase full of clothes. In the past, you have played many roles, pretending to be many personalities, as if you were wearing different clothes. You believe so strongly in certain roles that you see them as part of your identity. “This is me,” is how you think of roles or “dresses.”

However, when you truly examine what these roles have done to you, you will find that you are not them at all. You are not psychological roles or persons you pretended to be. You are not clothes. You are accustomed to roles played out of the soul's need for experience.

The soul enjoys all experiences because they are part of the learning process that the soul has taken on. In this respect, all experiences are valuable and useful.

Each of us in many incarnations simultaneously destroyed and was destroyed, accepted and rejected, was betrayed and betrayed, used and was used, rewarded and deprived, judged and judged, loved and hated. Unconditional Love finds the middle path between the two poles and sees the unity of love and hate. With forgiveness of ourselves and our dark side, we accept the dark side of other people and the need to demonstrate such behavior also becomes a thing of the past. The suppression of the dark side leads to the creation of an image or mask that limits the full emotional expression among people.

An example of pretense is those who consistently show love and hide insults and anger in themselves. Supporting the image, suppress emotions. Often the mask not only restricts the practice of pain, anger and fear, but also prevents the accumulation of the experience of love, joy and solemnity.

Wearing a mask often results in disunity, boredom, loneliness, and addictions. Acceptance and disclosure of the source of Love within oneself gradually removes all masks, making possible the full expression of all feelings and a new sense of life and creative manifestation. This allows you to contain and experience the celebration of being, along with the ability to feel and manage pain, anger and fear. Together with the mask, the block from the heart chakra is removed.

There are layers of pain built into our genetic system that close off the heart chakra almost from birth. These layers do not allow two people to sincerely connect and experience intimacy. When there is a gradual liberation from these layers, the heart opens to a new sublime experience of intimacy and communication. This happens when two or more hearts are connected by a new essence of communication based on love and new forms of relationship that have become possible. An open heart makes it possible to practice communication with Nature and God.

At the third stage you allow the old ego-based energies to leave, the emergence of a new self - a free person, confident strong, infinitely loving and accepting. At this stage, you discover your inner strength and your potential. You have confidence, joy and a sense of strength. You understand that you are the Creator of your reality, your reality pleases you. Every day you wake up and go to sleep feeling grateful and peaceful inside. At this stage, there are still small kickbacks sometimes, but you go through them very quickly - because you love and accept yourself. You have learned to forgive yourself and thanks to this, your energy is restored very quickly.

Fourth stage transition from ego to heart: Awakening the inner consciousness based on the heart, motivated by love and freedom, helping others to make a transformation. At this point, there is nothing holding you back. Your inner love and wholeness is fully awakened in you. You are so filled with Love and ready to share that the flow of energy in you is endless. Quiet joy and Peace arise inside you!!! This peace is restored within you. And you see that what is inside of you is manifested outside. Your world pleases you. Every day comes more joy and ideas that improve your life and the lives of all the people who come into contact with you. You become Love! Radiate Love! You become light and harmony. All who come into contact with you are healed. Because you have acceptance and love.

Now you energetically emit specific vibrations. There is something in your energy field that attracts people. And it's not what you do, but who you are.

There is a vibration in your energy that can help you get in touch with their divine selves.
Open broadcast “Pride. Ego. How to make friends with yourself.”
With love and faith in you, Elena Zheleztsova, author of the Honest Blog

“Love is not temporary.
Anything that is temporary is not love."
Rigden Djappo.

Love and selfishness. At first glance, two feelings, which at their root carry completely different concepts, meanings, emotions. We are sure that the line between them is so great that it is simply impossible to replace one with the other. And it seems that where there is a place for Love, egoism has no right to exist at all. After all, pronouncing the phrase "I love you!" we think we clearly understand its meaning. We are absolutely sure that our feelings are sincere, and we completely surrender to them. At first glance, everything seems simple and beautiful. Two people love each other, make plans for the future, dream of a happy life together and hope for the best, live calmly and measuredly. But why, then, in most of these cases, everything remains only a dream. And a beautiful fairy tale breaks on the first difficulty on the way, like ice on a rock, with millions of small fragments that hurt our hearts with such pain. Then we try to find the answers to the questions that just flow inside of us. Why? Who is guilty? Why is this happening to me? What is it for me? 'Cause I loved (loved) so much. We get dirty in the analysis of the reasons, we look for the guilty and, above all, we delve into the other person, and we tightly cover ourselves with the template of the offended and undeservedly punished. Over time, we find all the reasons in another person, thereby making ourselves completely innocent. We calm down and live on, again believing in a fairy tale. And with the advent of another such "fairy tale" we stumble upon the same problems. And we start a new race along the same track.

And let's try to stop and look at least a little into ourselves, into our sincere, at first glance, feelings. We talk about Love without thinking about who we really love, who we care about, worry about, and for whom we want a happy life so much. We don't even try to figure it out. Take, for example, the phrases that lovers often say to each other: “I can’t live without you”, “I can’t live without you”, “You are my hope and support” etc. And it immediately seems that a person is so deeply immersed in this wonderful feeling and lives it completely. But what happens if you delve deeper into these words, being honest with yourself? What are we really worried about? Is it about the person next to you, or about yourself? Indeed, at the basis of such words one can easily see a standard template from the Animal nature, where we put our Ego “I can’t, I won’t survive” at the center of all circumstances. We worry about what will happen to us. We worry that something will be missing for us, that the source of receiving the emotions that we like so much will be taken away from us. That some of our plans and dreams without this person will not be able to come true.

Why is this line of Love and selfishness hidden with such skill? Why do we allow these substitutions to exist in our lives? We are drowning in our own egoism, which is so gracefully covered by a great feeling of Love. We cannot admit, first of all, to ourselves, what exactly drives us in such situations. We are accustomed in relationships only to benefit, emotions, satisfy our desires, endless “I want this”, “I want that”. And how often do we care about another person? We are accustomed to seeing only his shell, appearance, clothes, material needs. Do we feel his Soul? And then the question arises whether we know our Soul, whether we feel it. After all, we are all dual in nature. We carry within ourselves two principles: the Spiritual and the Animal. The latter seeks to force us to live only as a slave to endless material needs. And as long as the Animal prevails in us, there can be no place for real Love. It is impossible to love based on material things. It is then that this fine line between Love and selfishness simply disappears. There is an invisible substitution of feelings for the desires of the Ego, which we often observe in life in the three-dimensional world. Where behind the loud words of love lie our secret desires to possess and dominate others.

Happiness and Love do not have a temporary space and limitation, and everything that is temporary is no longer this great feeling. And the feeling of Love cannot disappear and appear on the basis of the external material world. So what is really behind the feeling that we used to call love? And what makes us look for the meaning of life in someone else? Why, since childhood, we are looking for an external shaky support, instead of revealing it in ourselves - in our Soul? After all, each of us experienced a feeling of inner emptiness, a lack of something dear and close, which cannot be filled in any way by our environment in the material world, no matter how hard we try, no matter how much effort we make. After all, our material world, like our body, is temporary. And only the Soul, a part of God's world, is eternal. And only through it can we fill this void and create for ourselves an inner spiritual support.

The great feeling of Love is the immense power of the Spiritual world. It cannot be described in words in order to convey at least a small part of this state to the three-dimensional world. It has no boundaries, it is in everything and at the same time in nothing concrete, like air that we do not see, but feel. This state of unity comes from the inexhaustible Source within us, it cannot disappear or end, it is eternal and permanent. Nothing from the outside world can destroy it. A deep state of true Love arises between Souls beyond the visible material world. It reveals the true depth and subtlety, purity and creative power of the true Home of human souls.

“True Love is the deepest feelings of a person that cannot be expressed in words. This is the power of the Soul, its state of Love for God!” (Anastasia Novykh "AllatRa").

Olga Gorbaneva

It always seems that they love us for what we are
are good. And we don’t guess that they love us because
that those who love us are good.
(Tolstoy L.N.)

The number 3 is magical, it reflects the law of universal existence. Life will not arise if there is no combination of three -

  1. idea,
  2. method, way of implementing an idea,
  3. carriers, people who accept this idea.

For example, a person has accepted the idea: “I want to love and be loved. But how to do that?" To implement the idea, there must be a method.

Ideas don't work without method. Using the method of changing the level of consciousness, you can actively work in one life, or you can stretch it over several.

One should more often turn to God within oneself, to the Light within oneself, and then, according to the law, like is attracted to like, a similar building material is attracted from the astral world. But this initial glimpse of light, of conscience, must come from the heart (not the physical), and not from the mind.

It is important to go inside yourself more often, not to solve the problem with a superficial mind, but to solve it from the position of the depth of the soul. Sacred love is good, but it is not a higher state of consciousness, it is philosophizing.

Love and ego - true love comes from the heart.

Because at the slightest serious situation, a person shows his ego and forgets his unity with everything that exists. A rational person easily passes by the suffering of others, because for him it creates many problems. Compassion comes from the heart, then there is an irresistible desire to help. This is how a person helps himself, because with this pain he himself cannot exist.

There is biological, sacred or steamy love, which corresponds to a certain level of development of consciousness, and the concept of “happiness” is associated only with this feeling. These are good experiences, this is a useful experience of life.

The love of one ego-personality for another such person is selfish and its duration depends on the degree of egoism.

A man in love at the beginning wants to show tenderness to another, to do something pleasant. But later he wants to get more and more. The balance is disturbed, because egoism demands its own and gets tired of giving. And then it all depends on how much patience and energy is enough to return.

Love and ego are incompatible things, because there is a policy of cunning, playing around.

There is love that is not associated with the sacral chakra. Love, tenderness, attention, sympathy comes from the Anahata chakra. There is a constant state from oneself, outward, the desire to give.

The expansion of consciousness begins with tracking and changing what prevents you from loving, being plastic. You already know that there are three types:

  • instinct is the satisfaction of desires and needs. Actions without reasoning, instinctive, reasoning comes after the action;
  • intelligence mixed with a bit of instinct. Academic knowledge has nothing to do with higher consciousness. Hesitation goes either to instinct, or to conscience, but there is already self-esteem. You can be intellectual, but it does not apply to spiritual consciousness;
  • spiritual consciousness gives kinship, unity of life.

There is an impulse inside, a desire that goes against the ego and a person begins to act contrary to his interests. The ennobled instinct is a balance, not a confrontation, it is achieved with difficulty, painfully. When a person takes a decisive step towards the light, then they begin to supervise him, but advice, promptings and impulses come from within.

The development of intuition is not the acquisition of knowledge from books, it is not at the intellectual level at all, it is the spiritual level of consciousness. Signs of spirituality are compassion, a sense of the unity of life, absolute love. Outwardly, nothing will happen, but you will notice that you are parting with former friends, books, some thoughts, interests.

Clear signs of spiritual manifestation are enlightenment, the breakthrough of a new consciousness, the presence of a huge bright light inside a person. Meditation prepares this level of consciousness. The experience of enlightenment is delight, joyful bliss, a feeling of immortality comes.

A person, seeing another in trouble, helps himself without asking, as he feels him. Such a person radiates subtle energy, and others immediately feel it, as energy replenishment instantly takes place. We love those people who give us subtle high energy, and we do not love those who take this energy from us.

The greatest value that is given to us from above is life. She is one of a kind, unique. There is no need to kill time for empty deeds, it is better to accumulate spiritual values, to see the beauty of the world, of a person, to learn to give, to compassion, to love unconditionally. There is no need to push the spiritual and the material, because the currency of life is in the joint manifestation, in the synthesis of unity.

I have long intended to write about the difference between selfishness and self-love. And then I came across an article by N. Pokatilova “Where is the line between self-love and selfishness?”. A good article, I quote it with my comments about the relationships that “egoists” build with other people and why we, calling a person an egoist, often remain in a relationship with him:

“Self-love and selfishness are often confused due to the fact that in both cases a person is focused on himself, but, nevertheless, self-love and selfishness are radically different concepts, one might say, opposite.

selfishness

Selfishness is a state of lack of self-love. In a state of selfishness, a person tries to pull the blanket over himself, infringing on the interests of others. If we consider in more detail, we can understand that the egoist is trying to close the internal voids at the expense of resources, time, attention of other people.
The essence of selfishness is that a person is not capable of give yourself the attention and love you need and demands recognition from others.
In a state of selfishness, a person only wants to take without giving anything in return.
When we need something so much that we are ready to take it away, regardless of the opinion of others? When we are in severe deficit.
In a state of selfishness, a person wants to prove something to others, does not respect the needs of others, wants to satisfy his needs and fill deficits at any cost, wants to take without giving in return "
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Commentary: The trouble is, first of all, that deficiency needs are usually not recognized((

Self dislike

“If we do not have love for ourselves, but we, nevertheless, do our best to take care of others, give them a resource, then sooner or later they begin to accumulate resentment.
We don't know how to say "no" if the person's request goes against our own interests, principles, or priorities. We put someone's interests or life above our own, we live not from our desire, but from the expectations / requirements / interests of parents, partner, children.
We give our attention and love in the hope of receiving a response from others, out of a desire to please, but not receiving a response, we feel like a victim and we begin to blame, swear with loved ones, demand.
This happens due to the fact that we exhaust the resource of love that we have and do not fill it.
When is it okay to give? When we have a lot of love, over the edge.
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Commentary: All right, except for the part about "hate yourself." Here, not everything and not always so simple. Most egoists who do not love themselves just replace self-love (i.e. understanding themselves and their root needs) with egoism (i.e. “you owe me everything, but I don’t, because ...”) . In such cases, the “egoist”, who is not able to love himself, chooses a “victim”, who is also not able to love himself, but who has his own neurotic need (for merging, for example, or for transferring responsibility, in a word, a non-adult, in parent-child relationship strategies). As a result of such a symbiosis, the “child” expects a parental relationship from the “egoist” (and does not receive, of course), and the “egoist” is enraged by “whims” ( anger, aggression, despondency and complaints) partner-"child". Thus, the relationship develops dependent - the "egoist" is sure that he is right (no one holds his partner by the leg!), And the "child" is deeply unhappy, but the need to merge "with the parent" holds him quite tightly. In practice, a sado-masochistic dyad arises, where everyone is unhappy but satisfied. You can talk a lot about this, but both an “egoist” and a “child” are far from always a “victim”. They alternately in this role, because. there is always a lot of aggression in the arsenal of “those who do not love themselves”, it can be open (like in a “child”) and hidden (“passive”), like in an “egoist”, but it is always present in one form or another, creating destructive, unecological relationships , (i.e. neurotic connection).

Self love

“In a state of self-love, a person has so much of it that he is ready to share it, without demanding or expecting anything in return. In a state of self-love, you do not use people, you think about yourself, but you treat others with respect, without infringing on their interests, you accept them. When you love yourself, it is easy and natural for you to love others and take care of them.
At the same time, you know how to defend your principles, say “no” if you don’t want something, you know how to build boundaries when it’s convenient for you and it doesn’t interfere with others. You take care of yourself instead of expecting it from others.
You know exactly what you want, and not what is “fashionable or cool”, you are true to your goals and dreams, you are happy in harmony with yourself and this is very cool!”
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