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Originally Posted by Martian Tigress
The only way we can change others is by changing ourselves. Once we begin to move differently in our relationships, the other parties have to move differently also, because the 'triggering change' has already occurred. People who think that ridiculing someone who has truly awakened will make that awakening go away just make me laugh! They are the proverbial 'day late and a dollar short', and are espousing a position (YOU are the one who must stop what you're doing, etc.) that is completely ineffective when it comes to changing anything in a meaningful way.
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You make an excelent point there. To often i see people complaining about how
other people are living their lives whilst seeming oblivious that they too posess the same traits that they seem to despise in others. Its become apparent to me now that people dislike in others what they dislike in themselves. Yet they refuse to aknowledge their own imperfections.
I want to talk about Jesus for a moment, even if we use him as a hypothetical fictional charactor.
- Jesus had quite a large following of people. He didnt use violence or oppresion to achieve this, he done it by taking the initiative and practicing what he preached. He used himself as an example of what a person can achieve by walking the sometimes trecherous righteous path and as a result he influenced a large audience everywhere we went.
He is an excelent example of how one man can influence thousands by simply practising what he preaches. Even to this day the stories of Jesus still influence many people.
I'm sorry if my spelling is not too great but im a spellcheck whore when it comes to forums and im finding myself lost without it.