Politics Corrupts & Cannibalizes Compassion: 10-07-2025

Politics Corrupts & Cannibalizes Compassion: 10-07-2025

1. Moral Relativism Distorts and Destroys Compassion: All beliefs that all actions are contextually justifiable will deny compassion for victims and law-abiding citizens. When criminal behaviors and dangerous, illegal actions are excused as products of circumstance, the harm done to others and the safety of others will be downplayed and ignored as politically unimportant.
2. Cultural Narratives Distort and Destroy Compassion: Modern political policies often prioritize so-called “oppressed” and “marginalized” groups, such as criminals, deviants, and illegal immigrants, as victims of systemic issues. This moves care and compassion away from their victims, the crimes they commit, and the protection of the rights of legal citizens.
3. Selective Empathy Distorts and Destroys Compassion: Humans have limited attention and emotional bandwidth, and compassion can be hijacked by loud advocacy and media amplification for specific political issues and causes. Selective empathy silences quieter voices, such as those of victims and law-abiding citizens whom the news ignores and characterizes as far-right, so without rights.
4. Virtue Signaling Distorts and Destroys Compassion: Political, social media, and other public displays of compassion are often more about social status or moral posturing than genuine care and concern. People often champion controversial groups to appear progressive, sidelining victims whose suffering doesn’t fit the trendy narrative and ignoring the government’s primary purpose to protect its citizens.
5. True compassion, however, isn’t selective—it balances empathy for all, including victims, citizens, and even wrongdoers, without excusing bad intentions, harm, and violence. The weaponization of compassion for politics is an attack on virtue itself. To counter this, compassion must be grounded in fairness and accountability, ensuring it extends to everyone affected, not just those who fit a particular ideological frame, for those seeking fame and power.

A Living Body Is a Self: 10-06-2025

1. You have two selves because you have two bodies.
2. Your lesser self is your physical body, and it is the home for your higher self, your spiritual body.
3. Your spiritual body can move between your physical body and the spiritual world. Your spiritual self needs to be tethered to your physical body when in the spiritual world.
4. Even in Heaven, your spiritual body will need a physical body for its home; however, your new body will be made of spirit, not flesh, and without fleshly desires.
5. You have no self composed of knowledge-things, memory-objects, mental-things, self-constructions, semantic-objects, thought-things, verbal-objects, or any of the tools that the ego uses under its modern name of self-esteem.

Choose to Be Yourself, Your Inner Body: 10-05-2025

1. Unlike plants and animals, you have two bodies. You have the physical body and the internal body.
2. The desires, feelings, and experiences of any body are in that body, not a mind or other place. For example, the feelings of hunger and thirst are in the physical body.
3. Choose to be yourself by having the desires of your internal body and know that the desires of a body are in that body, not the mind.
4. Choose to be yourself by having the feelings of your internal body and know that the feelings of a body are in that body, not the mind.
5. Choose to be yourself by embracing the experiences of your internal body and recognizing that these experiences reside within that body, not the mind.
6. Give your internal body the freedom to host only the good by focusing it on what is good, better, and best.

The Ship Is Not the Cargo (GS): 10-04-2025

1. You do nothing in your mind.
2. You are nothing in your mind.
3. You cause nothing in your mind.
4. You create nothing in your mind.
5. You control nothing in your mind.
6. You are the source of nothing in your mind.
7. You are the container, not the contents.
8. You are the host, not the hosted.
9. You can control hosting, not the hosted.

Stop Claiming Powers You Don’t Have: 10-03-2025

1. You don’t sit with it; it sits with you.
2. You don’t give it a rest; you stop attaching to it, so it will stop being active.
3. You did not let it be; it let itself be because you have no power to control it.
4. You don’t turn it over to a higher power or God. You stop making it about what and who you are.
5. You don’t let go because you have no power to hold on to anything. What you do is stop identifying with it, because that is what keeps it within you.

Knowledge Is Not the Answer: 10-02-2025

1. Knowledge can guide, but it cannot be a guide.
2. A change in knowledge is a change in thinking, nothing else.
3. Knowledge can be used for direction, but it is not itself direction.
4. Knowledge can be used for direction, but it is not itself capable of providing direction.
5. You, your body, and life are not knowledge, though knowledge was used to create them.
6. Knowledge can transform the ego because it is based on knowledge, not the self, which is based on energy.
7. Projecting knowledge of behaviors onto someone does not make them into that knowledge, even when accurate.

You Must Be Patient: 10-01-2025

Patientia est virtus.

1. Patience allows you to stay calm under pressure.
2. Patience fosters emotional resilience and coping.
3. Patience fosters proactive planning and problem-solving.
4. Patience fosters more enduring and stronger relationships.
5. Patience helps defeat and deflate the ego and its demandingness.
6. Patience foster decision-making over impulses and rash decisions.
7. Patience helps keep your negative stress lower and your life satisfaction higher.
8. Patience helps you achieve better timing, which in turn results in better outcomes.
9. Patience is not avoidance, but rather the ability to endure until the right time comes.