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Originally Posted by perplexity  If you happen to meet with somebody at gas station who is not in need, do you kneel and pray to him? |
Pray to him? .. No, I don't pray to anyone. What does this have to do with an act of kindness?
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Seriously, I'd like to know how it works, this finding of the self, and why the self is so much in need of the search.
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Mankind has been searching for answers all along. Scientists and Philosophers alike have searched for answers on every end of the globe, only to come up without an answer. Are you not searching?
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In my expereince the special way to be touched has rather been to the effect that there is nothing more offensive to a person's dignity than unsolicited help from a self obsessed other person.
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So you've taken an act of kindness and turned it around to an unsolicited self obsession.... am I correct? I beg to differ. At some point everyone is in need of something and we as a people rely on the services and products that another person provides. That's how the economical system works. If you see self obsession, you're simply taking a positive action and focusing on the negative. We make the choice as to what we see and that's our choice.
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I am rather inclined nowadays to decline to help in any case because of the pain of the bite of the hand that fed; to Hell with them.
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I've also declined help in the past, the Me against the world mentality. It just doesn't work. Lets all work together and lift our brothers and sisters when in need. Just so happens that every single individual is also part of a whole.
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The people who helped me most in life were those kind enough to appreciate what I had to give to them, not vise versa.
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When you give, what if they didn't want to accept. Isn't that what you've said above? Should be a two way street.