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How Bad a Person Am I? Four Questions to Help With Spiritual Self-Assessment.

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How Bad a Person Am I? Four Questions to Help With Spiritual Self-Assessment.

You may not be as bad as you thinkThought Manifestation Reviewif you have been focusing on or exaggerating the negative side and ignoring or minimising the positive.

"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad." (Thomas Carlyle)

We may be quick to pin labels on people. That's why the tabloid newspapers sell so well. But being judgmental about oneself is a similar attitude. One can search out for and exaggerate one's own defects just as easily as finding fault in others. Seeing oneself just in terms of one's negative characteristics means forgetting such positives as one's generosity of spirit or one's desire to better understand the deeper side of life.

In many mythological, folklore and religious traditions, hell is a place of damnation i.e. eternal torture and punishment for bad conduct during life on earth. Even today we are influenced by this tradition. Condemnation of others can be paralleled by self-condemnation. The persecutory notion that bad people deserve to suffer is mirrored by the guilty idea that I, who am bad, deserve to suffer.

 

 

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