Complaining is one of the ego’s favorite strategies for strengthening itself. Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in….Resentment is the emotion that goes with complaining and the mental labeling of people adds even more energy to the ego…. Complaining is not to be confused with informing someone of a mistake or deficiency so that it can be put right. (Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth)
This passage seems
appropriate for a day when the government has been shut down, but separating the two—feeding
the ego and putting things right—is no easy job.
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