People with a strong attractive power
can end up attracting themselves.
The roots of narcissism
and chronic self-analysis
are one in the same.
The energy, as attention, goes out into the world,
But before it reaches its target,
It gets drawn back
-like by gravity -
to its owner’s own attractive energy center.
If we are sensitive, our returning attention
encounters all the minor imperfections
of our developing selves. Thus we
self-analyze.
If we are numb, our returning attention
sees only the attractive energy center
shining through. Thus we become
narcissists.
Either way, the owners of strong energy
are trapped
by their own attractive power
This is why so many well-meaning, compassionate, talented yet insecure people
can be accused of being self-absorbed.
They will remain absorbed in themselves
until they can help their energy escape their own gravitational field.
There is an inner way and an outer way.
The outer way is to find something outside yourself that dominates your attention, that attracts you more than yourself.
For some, this is a lover. For others, it is a cause.
Anything you can find to devote yourself to
Can help to draw you out of yourself.
However, this is an imperfect world,
with wonderful, yet flawed lovers, with imperfect causes.
The self-critics can find things wrong with all of these, too,
and thus drift between lovers, between callings,
on an eternal pursuit to satisfy themselves
which is really a pursuit to forget about themselves.
That is why there is an inner way.
The inner way is to keep your attention from taking off
Never letting it get far enough away to turn back and see yourself.
Instead, ground your attention inside for a while,
in the feelings of your body, in the validity of your heart.
Hence your energy gathers inside,
Adding rocket thrusters for the blastoff.
Finally, when you turn your attention back to the world again,
it can escape your orbit,
and penetrate through the superficial flaws or perfections of others
with a sight that can see into THEIR hearts
and find new orbit there.
Then your attention does not have to return home again - not right away -
Because it has found just as much to attract it
in the hearts of any other.
When your attractive power has been added to
by the presence of your mind inside
Your vision will pierce through the atmosphere of imperfections in the world.
You can finally see and enjoy the world,
rather than yourself.
You can live and love freely,
as you choose.
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