The Second Commandment: Love Everything – Part 3

The Love Everything Table of Errors

	Positive Errors	Negative Errors	Ignorance Errors
Self	Narcissism	Self Harm	Unconscious Self Shadow
Others	Idiot Compassion	Unfair Punishment	Unconscious Societal Shadow

The Error of Narcissism

There is an old Jewish joke that relates to this error.    

Early one morning in the Synagogue, before the Sabbath congregation arrived, the Rabbi, the head teacher and leader, was praying with the Cantor, the lead singer of prayers.  They were praying fervently.  Once in a while during the prayers each of them would shout out “Oh G-d, I am nothing!”  

The Shabbos Goy, a non-Jew who helps out on the Sabbath and acts as a custodian to clean up, came in to the congregation room from the back and was watching the Rabbi and the Cantor fervently praying. 

He was so moved that he fell to his knees and also shouted out “Oh G-d, I am nothing!” 

The Cantor turns to the Rabbi and whispers to him “Look who thinks he’s nothing.” 

This is the error of Narcissism.  Where you think that because you have more cognitive intelligence, education, are richer, or thinner, you are somehow better than others. 

We all are sensory organs of Source.  The same Source looks out from behind each of our sensory organs; sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and perhaps, a sixth sense of intuition. 

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200007/is-there-sixth-sense

We are all Source.  Sometimes, when we feel this deeply, we make the error of inflating our ego.  We think that because we are seeing more clearly than others, we are somehow better than them. 

Seeing Source true and clear, does not inflate the ego.  Seeing clearly allows a great compassion to arise, a compassion for all who do not see as clearly, and a compassion for our selves, who can never see perfectly clearly. 

We become humble before the greatness and infinite beauty and wisdom of Source.  We see that we are but an eddy current in the sea of Source. 

This physical body will age and die.   Any memory of us as individuals, no matter how famous we are now, will fade over the millennia to come. 

This is our paradox, we are Source, we are everything, and we are nothing. 

Sit with this beautiful truth and let Love Everything fill you up!