14.1...negative or not?

[ewald]

Bruce - that's an interesting distinction to ponder.

I like placing morality opposite to compassion (coming from the heart). When there's real compassion, there's no need for morality.

 

[bruce]

Ewald, yes, I'm sympathetic to that view. One of my life's biggest lessons, thus far, is that I actually can trust myself. What I have to remind myself is that not everyone has come to that, yet. Otherwise I'm being naive, which is sometimes the down side of innocence.

 

[ewald]

Sounds like a big lesson indeed. Trust of self and being is a really big issue in the personality.

I can't say that I'm capable of acting from compassion a lot of the time, but am working on it. There's for me still a lot of superego to get rid of to unleash strength, and a lot of pain to be accepted supported by that strength.