PONDER on THIS for Thursday, January 5th, 2017 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH

“Complaining as well as fault-finding and reactivity strengthen the ego’s sense of boundary and separateness on which its survival depends. But they also strengthen the ego in another way by giving it a feeling of superiority on which it thrives. It may not be immediately apparent how complaining, say, about a traffic jam, about politicians, about the “greedy wealthy” or the “lazy unemployed,” or your colleagues or ex-spouse, men or women, can give you a sense of superiority. Here is why. When you complain by implication you are right and the person or situation you complain about or react against is wrong…Being right places you in a position of imagined moral superiority in relation to the person or situation that is being judged or found wanting. It is that sense of superiority the ego craves and through which it enhances itself.”

Eckhart Tolle, in “A New Earth”

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