What you project you disown, and therefore do not believe is yours. You are excluding yourself by the very judgment that you are different from the one on whom you project. Since you have also judged against what you project, you continue to attack it because you continue to keep it separated. By doing this unconsciously, you try to keep the fact that you attacked yourself out of awareness, and thus imagine that you have made yourself safe. T-6.II.2:1-4
A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
Human beings can be so stupid. Stupidity is fueled by lack of awareness. Sometimes it is comical. People project whatever they are experiencing shame about onto other people. “The pot calling the kettle black.” “People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” “Don’t be taking other people’s inventories, take your own.”
In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. This principle is one of the most difficult to practice. The principle is exemplified when a 3 year old complains that “it’s not fair.”
Today it is suggested that we take several moments to ask ourselves in dealing with ourselves and others, “Is it fair?”
