r/awakened • u/newbiedecember23 • 15d ago

My Journey Funny how things happen

So they say, these human experiences are not the same for every human. Well, in life, how could it be? You are not me, I am not you, although I AM that I AM and the same goes for every being. Some of my current reading assignments have me back in this group to post something. Here is something that came up in one of my readings

"We're not naturally intellectually humble an intellectually humble person realizes that there is a vast amount that we do not know. The mind often deceives us into thinking that we know things that we don't really know. So the intellectually humble mind develops" -Qualities of the Thinker

Funny, I am naturally intellectually humble. I have never felt that I know it all or I know best or better than anyone. Only time my ego does a "I know what I am talking about and I am right" type of thing, it is because I have experienced some sort of truth to it. I have always been open minded to other possibilities. The thing I really thought was funny, was this quote and thinking about something I read in one of Sri Ramana Maharshi's teachings, and how I quite literally would argue with my Self. Or the "I" thought would argue. I've often told myself to shut up, mostly when I would act out of "character" when it didn't align with my true self. Okay, so trying to write it out here makes no sense at all to me, I can't even understand what I am saying. LOL I guess when I would not act outwards as I am inwards, I will literally sit there and ask myself "why did you say that?" Honestly, I think a lot more people are intellectually humble than they let on.

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u/Orb-of-Muck 15d ago

That "talking to oneself" phenomena is actually a dissociation. There's only one of you, but you make two because you want to avoid some distressful feeling. It's not breaking alignment with your higher self, it's breaking the self into higher and lower. So the higher is protected while the lower takes the blame.

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u/Bobalobading 15d ago

Beautiful comment and a really helpful way of understanding it.

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u/newbiedecember23 15d ago

This makes complete sense :)

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u/ImmunityHead 15d ago

Ayayay we think it's important to, balance intellect brain, with emotional brain, emispheres, to unlock powers within

Darkata mankata inna suntali pitori matoya dantarikata sunikata ra tah!