symbols wrote:Your life is not your own.If it were you could choose when you get sick,when you get better,when you start living,when you die.Nothing would be beyond your control.
We are given a lease on life and with it comes consciousness and with consciousness comes choices.But with life comes our worst source of pride.The pride of being alive.Just like the young are proud of the their youth so are men proud of their lives.
Rich or poor,healthy or sick,male or female,we are proud because there are those who shall never exist and we have.Our greatest fear is thus tied to our pride and our choices.
Our greatest fear is not fear of the unknown.Our greatest fear is the giver of life,whatever you may perceive it to be.For we live under submission to life yet our pride comes from being alive.A constant reminder that we have nothing to be proud of but fearful of the giver of life.
Instead of facing this we choose to indulge ourselves while pursing a futile endeavor to take control of our lives and to some,the lives of others.We go so far as to submit ourselves to the authority of others and society in an attempt to evade the consequences of our choices which solely lie in our hands no matter the circumstances.
But this also is futile for no man can take control of your choices without your cooperation.To do this would mean to take control of your consciousness and that is impossible.
Pride is fear for at the very least it is attempted robbery and ultimately an attempt at a coup.Where there is pride there is fear and the death of pride is the birth of joy.
'Your life isn't your own'. Notice what is happening here. There's self consciousness here. And self consciousness implies seperation.
Pride is the prop of our ignorance, against the background of our divine nature.
The serpent, 'deceives' and 'heals'. All the children of Israel must look up to it. Lucifer- light bearer.
Pride is being 'bitten' by 'pseudo snakes' and consequently dying.
Pride is Adam and Eve clothing themselves.