#self-negation

[younusalgohar]

‘Those deprived of self-negation develop intolerance.’ - HH Younus AlGohar

'Quienes se ven privados de la auto-negación desarrollan intolerancia.’ - Su Santidad Younus AlGohar

[anon-i-mus]

“Enlightenment is not ‘personal’; it is the profound realization that you are not a person (separate self).”  

-Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

The ‘person’ that you have mistaken yourself to be is but a useful fiction that cleverly covers the vastness of your infinite nature. At the deepest level of reality - we are the indivisible field of unity behind our everyday experiences. There is no personal gain in awakening, for there is no ‘person’ to claim it. The body-mind (separate self) has to be let go of and what will remain is the undisturbed, underlying reality behind all appearances. Every moment provides the perfect opportunity to truly remember what you are. The recognition that the truth you were seeking was never outside of what you are already. The separate self must dissolve completely into the wholeness and grace will permeate every aspect of your life.   

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[astranemus]

This particular mechanism [of escape] is the solution that the majority of normal individuals find in modern society. To put it briefly, the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be. The discrepancy between “I” and the world disappears and with it the conscious fear of aloneness and powerlessness. This mechanism can be compared with the protective coloring some animals assume. They look so similar to their surroundings that they are hardly distinguishable from them. The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

[anon-i-mus]

“Out of your inner emptiness arises the flowering of your Infinite Self.”   ~Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

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[astranemus]

The puzzle in this seeming contradiction is easy to solve. Selfishness is rooted in this very lack of fondness for oneself. The person who is not fond of himself, who does not approve of himself, is in constant anxiety concerning his own self. He has not the inner security which can exist only on the basis of genuine fondness and affirmation. He must be concerned about himself, greedy to get everything for himself, since basically he lacks security and satisfaction, The same holds true with the so-called narcissistic person, who is not so much concerned with getting things for himself as with admiring himself. While on the surface it seems that these persons are very much in love with themselves, they actually are not fond of themselves, and their narcissism - like selfishness - is an overcompensation for the basic lack of self-love. Freud has pointed out that the narcissistic person has withdrawn his love from others and turned it toward his own person. Although the first part of this statement is true, the second is a fallacy. He loves neither others nor himself.

Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom; On reconciling the paradox of the self-interest of the capitalist consumer with the spiritual asceticism and submission of the Protestant work ethic

[danskjavlarna]

Here’s what appears to be a self-cancelled postage stamp from Stamp-Collector’s Magazine, 1869.  We recall that “Hegelian subjectivity is the capacity to self-negate without self-destroying, to generate new selves out of the contradictions of former selves” (Katrin Pahl, Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion).

Recently started a collection of vintage postage stamp imagery.

[younusalgohar]

'What Jihad is obligatory upon every single Muslim? The Jihad against your own self is obligatory; Jihad against the evil in you - and this type of Jihad starts with self-denial and self-negation. When you are engaged in observing self-denial and self-negation, you are actually crushing your ego.'

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[adornography]

It makes me enormously happy To think that my death is of no importance whatsoever.

—Fernando Pessoa (as Alberto Caeiro), from A Little Larger than the Entire Universe. Translated by Richard Zenith.