The Ultimate Truth (and why people hurt my feelings)

The ultimate truth – is consistent with the ultimate reality

Why can people be cruel? – is there a deeper reason?

Are people just cruel?

But what about all the kindness we see?

So are some people cruel and others kind?

Were people born cruel?

Were they born kind?

Are they kind after being cruel?

Or cruel after being kind?

The truth is like this

We are mixes

We are fundamentally God’s light / soul, namely, compassionate and as neuroscientists have discovered, children are intrinsically compassionate.

But we likewise are not selfless.

We are not only, like every animal, instinctually hardwired to feel pleasure and recoil from pain (and hence get addicted to pleasure and phobic of pain.)

We also have – lower than all animals – an ego instinct, desire to be better than others and though we may not realize it, the reason we laugh at a joke which puts another down (rednecks etc.) is because we have an evil instinctual pleasure in feeling superior.

But the ultimate truth is, we are capable of disavowing our own evil pleasures, capable of overcoming our fears and capable of actualizing our Divine soul’s goodness!

(The proof is the many people who did and as everyone is born with similar instincts, the fact they did, proves its possibility!)

But the thing is, as Jung said, “There is no birth of consciousness without pain.”

No, we don’t change unless we feel the pain is greater than the pleasure; our fears less tolerable than our “comfort zone,” in, “better the devil you know.”

So to remove our comfort zone, something must shake us