Years ago, I overheard a couple of coworkers discussing another coworker. They were talking about the fact that she was unmarried and pregnant. The gist of the conversation was how awful a thing it was, seeing how the girl was relatively young and immature. People will gossip. What struck me about the conversation is how hypocritical these two particular people were being. Both of them had been in the very same situation with their first pregnancies.
All of us experience our hypocritical moments. Very often, they occur when we are triggered by circumstances that are unresolved issues within ourselves. When we see the same situation occurring elsewhere, we push our own inadequacies aside by focusing on the inadequacies of others.
The emotional trigger that comes up when someone else makes the same mistake we've made but left unresolved is known as a mirror. The thought is that what we see in the world around us is merely a reflection of ourselves. Being hypocritical involves ignoring the truth of what you see in your mirror.
The process of awareness involves the willingness to look past all those things that make us uncomfortable and see what actually exists, the good, the bad and the ugly. Accepting our own darkness always comes at a price, but in the long run this price leads to awareness.
When we are finally able to look squarely in the mirror at both the light and dark aspects of ourselves and fully accept responsibility for everything, the world as we know it will transform for the better. That is the power of the mirror.
~CSE
All of us experience our hypocritical moments. Very often, they occur when we are triggered by circumstances that are unresolved issues within ourselves. When we see the same situation occurring elsewhere, we push our own inadequacies aside by focusing on the inadequacies of others.
The emotional trigger that comes up when someone else makes the same mistake we've made but left unresolved is known as a mirror. The thought is that what we see in the world around us is merely a reflection of ourselves. Being hypocritical involves ignoring the truth of what you see in your mirror.
The process of awareness involves the willingness to look past all those things that make us uncomfortable and see what actually exists, the good, the bad and the ugly. Accepting our own darkness always comes at a price, but in the long run this price leads to awareness.
When we are finally able to look squarely in the mirror at both the light and dark aspects of ourselves and fully accept responsibility for everything, the world as we know it will transform for the better. That is the power of the mirror.
~CSE
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