We tend to get absorbed into things—ideas, beliefs, feelings of personal injustice, why that person pushed into the queue while I was waiting in the sandwich shop, that the newspaper edited out the crucial sentence in my letter to the editor and made it worse by committing an apostrophe error, and so on. I am enjoying the cake so much I practically become the cake.
In order not to be swept along by events in this way a little objectivity is required. I am not a ball in a pin-ball machine. Avoiding identification, or at least being able to jump out of the system when finding oneself in a pin-ball machine, is about being a full human being. We don’t need to get involved in the idea of trying to be higher beings in order to see the sense of this.
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