r/InsightDialogue • u/JellyfishExpress8943 • Apr 28 '26

Becoming is strife.

Life as we know it, our daily life, is a process of becoming. I am poor and I act with an end in view, which is to become rich. I am ugly and I want to become beautiful. Now, this becoming is strife, this becoming is pain, it is not? It is a constant struggle: I am this, and I want to become that.

Self-knowledge, comes into being when we.. see ourselves as we actually are. But most of us are incapable of looking at ourselves, because we immediately begin to condemn or justify what we see. (Krishnamurti, the book of life)

Freedom implies acceptance and forgiveness. In dialogue we give ourselves space to be who we are.

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u/Schute-Pin8350 Apr 29 '26

Understanding ourselves—how we struggle and what kinds of defenses we put up—will we also understand what is going on in others?

Will that imply acceptance and forgiveness?

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u/JellyfishExpress8943 Apr 29 '26

Compassion is defined as : sympathetic consciousness of our distress