Egos

I have always detested people with big egos, those who look down upon others. I particularly used to see this in the spiritual world where some people would elevate themselves, believing they were somehow better than those around them. And of course, in certain sectors of society where those with, generally newly-acquired, wealth, would do the same thing. When we die, we take nothing with us. Those attitudes of ‘I am better than thou’ will count for nothing on the other side and with my knowledge of reincarnation, I am sure some of these people will choose to be reborn into poverty, especially if they have difficulty believing they are actually no better than others.

Here’s the catch. We have lived before, often many, many times and of many races. It is fine to have wealth or to have gifts and to live exactly how one pleases, but it is not fine to have a superiority of another human being and to make another feel inadequate, though in saying that, no one makes anyone feel anything, that person does that all by themselves.

But what I am trying to say is that it is not ok to belittle another or to act superiorly towards them. Often, unbeknownst to these arrogant people, others are actually judging them, calling them pompous or other such names. Here’s the next catch. Even in writing this, I am expressing a judgement to a certain type of person. I am actually judging these people myself. Because I don’t like their attitudes, I am making them bad.

The reality is none of us are good or bad. We are all humans, making our best way in the world, under the circumstances we find ourselves in. We all have traits across the spectrum.

I need to question myself, what is it about arrogance that I detest? What part of me are these people triggering? Is it the part that already feels inadequate, or some other?

I had an issue on the weekend at the Spirit Fair, with one person in particular. I have already done some work on this and that was to realise that the energy I was emanating towards this person probably wasn’t that great. Here I was, thinking these negative thoughts (because of their arrogance) and they probably picked up on that, compounding the issue.

As I have stated many times before, everything comes back to oneself. It is not, this person did this or that to me, but this person did this or that, why am I feeling as I am? Why am I reacting?

It will be lovely when I have no reaction to arrogance, because then I will know I am healed. It is now glaringly obvious that I have some much-needed self-work.

Time to look within.