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#politics #trump #ego #failure #parade

Heather Cox Richardson 5/14/2025

The rejection Trump faced yesterday, podcaster Jack Hopkins noted, “was a big tub of rock salt poured on his wounds of lifelong insecurity.” That profound injury to Trump’s sense of self braced observers for a lashing out of epic proportions as he tries to demonstrate that he is, in fact, powerful.

"Perhaps, when Mr. Biden fought to run for a second term, he was acting on hope. But it’s hard not to think that he, and the people around him, were partly operating out of denial. Denial prevents people from being able to plan for the worst":
nytimes.com/2025/05/21/opinion
#Biden #health #ego #selfishness #politics

The New York Times · Opinion | Hope for the Best, but Plan for the Worst While PresidentBy Rachael Bedard

It feels safe to believe you’ve figured things out.
But the comfort of “knowing” is often a trap.
What if your certainty is built on delusion?
To be free, you must stay adaptable… and let go of what you think you know.

#Zen #LetGo #Ego #SpiritualAwakening #Mindfulness #Beliefs #Suffering #Nonduality #ChangeIsConstant #TruthBeyondThought

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the essential #psychological failure of #toxicIdealism is as follows:

if one can justify a position inside the ivory tower mind palace of one's self-regard, then that is "morality"

no, it's #ego masturbation

true #morality is action, even if it is messy

but they value the purity of themselves, over actually mattering to the world

the real world is too messy, they can't be bothered with messiness

ego over #reality

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/757…

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"So if #basictrust is present, #theSoul will more easily let go of old structures, will more easily settle into simply being, and will tend to let its process unfold without interference, which will lead naturally toward essential development. Without basic trust, the attitude of #ego will predominate; the soul will lack implicit confidence in her life and process. The ego will try to take things into its own hands and manipulate, pushing things one way or the other, resulting in the further isolation and entrenchment of ego."

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"The #ego’s perspective arises out of a lack of this trust [#basictrust]. It is based on distrust, on paranoia, on fear, on the conviction that you’re not going to be adequately taken care of and that the universe is not there to hold and take care of you in the ways that you need. This conviction causes you to believe that you have to engage in all kinds of manipulations and games to get your needs met and to make things work out."

Un #percorsospirituale non può, in alcun modo o forma, portare #tranquillità. So che può sembrare assurdo, ma intraprendere un #lavorospirituale propriamente detto vuol dire mettersi in guai grossi.

Nella spiritualità moderna (si potrebbe dire #NewAge, o anche bianca occidentale e capitalista) invece è tutto semplicissimo, ti basta lasciarti andare al flusso, vedere che Tutto è Uno e che tu sei Dio, che ha un grande disegno per tutti. Un modo come un altro per metterti al tuo posto.

Il fascismo spirituale moderno ti porta a fermarti, dandoti delle risposte semplici e brevi per farti capire quanto tu sia speciale. Ti fa capire che il posto in cui ti trovi va bene. È Xanax dell'anima (di cui fa parte anche il corpo, ma quello non è importante e va trasceso).

L'Ego diventa il più grande nemico di una "persona spirituale", anche se non si capisce come facciano poi a vivere nel mondo senza, e se fai qualcosa, qualunque cosa, è proprio per #Ego e stai sbagliando. Soprattutto se ti esponi a favore di una causa che non ti tocca direttamente! Perché non riesci ad andare oltre ai dualismi e vedi tutto o bianco o nero.
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