Monday, February 18, 2013

The Helper Syndrome

Simply doing good deeds, or even being a devoted meditator, doesn’t mean anything without the painful honesty that’s required to look at what we’re doing. We must take our heads out of the ground and look at all of the ways we get in our own way—fooling ourselves and obstructing the possibility of living a more open and genuine life.
This excellent article is for people who are stuck in the habit and belief that simply ‘being good’ or ‘kind’ is enough, a belief that is usually connected to, and hidden by, a false pretense of ‘I’m just being me’.  

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