Notes On Cleaning the Inside of The Cup and The Platter #7: Its Never Just About You or For You. We Are All Part of Something Greater Than Ourselves. Whether Its Community, Family, Descendants, Others, Country, Future Generations or Faith.

Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too.

LORD Jesus Christ, Matthew 23:26

'I realize under the circumstances you have described you feel the need to see clearly. But your vision will become clearer only when you look at your own heart. Without everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity. Who looks without, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.'

Carl Jung, Letter to Fanny Bowditz

DIRTY:

By now, everyone knows my story, but I keep repeating it because a lot of the unconscious parameters and beliefs that I am trying to clean have their origin in those experiences.

I am learning - through grace, experience and a lot of mistakes - that that is the main purpose of Psychology. To help people clean the inside of the cup and the platter. I don't know if I am 100% correct but I understand the inside of the cup and the platter to be the unconscious beliefs and parameters that we operate under. In my experience, I spent a large portion of my life trying to change my bad behaviors on the outside to no avail. Th point was to change the unconscious beliefs and parameters that we operate under.

As a child, I grew up really poor. I developed the belief that unless you make everything only about you and for you then you will never get what you what. But the opposite is true - when you make things only about you and for you, you never get what you want.

At least that has been my experience.

CLEAN:

My whole life I moved through it making things about me or for me, but I was wrong. I could go far in life, but I was never effective.

Only recently - again through prayer, grace, and learning from mistakes - that I am realizing or seeing that if you want to be effective and successful, or even simply to go far in life, you must realize that things are not just for yourself or about yourself.

Ultimately, everything we do - at least that is what I am learning - is for our communities, our descendants, our families, our descendants, our loved one's, others, our countries, future generations and our faith. To make things better and more perfect for them and to lift them up.

That is generally the story of mankind.

That has been my experience.

What do you think?