Egocentrism Prevents True Prosperity
Egocentric people are arrogant and think they do not need anyone, because they know it all, they find themselves self-sufficient, do not share anything with anyone since they do not know how to listen, to engage and to exchange. They do not know how to accept from others! That’s right! The major problem of self-centred people is not that they do not know how to give, and this is obvious because they spend most of their time navel-gazing, and it may hurt others but not themselves. What eventually hurts the egocentric is that one day they will regret when they realise that they never knew how to accept from and relate to others. Because of their disdain of the knowledge and experience, the affection and the importance of the other, living as an eternal teenager with endless doubts, fears, insecurities and in an attempt to fill the void of their own existence (behaviour which in adolescence is understandable, since it is a phase of their self-discoveries about their social role). They will end up in cycles of self-assertion before others, because the only concern of the arrogant is not to seem fragile, ignorant, needy or any other thing that gives them a vague connotation that they are HUMAN!
The great fear of the egomaniac – the one who deifies their own ego and worship it above any other mortal – is simply looking human, fallible, wrong and right at the same time. The ideal behaviour is of the eternal apprentice who see that the actual teachers are the people around them, since you are open to seeing it. Even those who we do not admire have something to teach us, because defects are potential virtues as rough gemstones to be polished. It is among diversity that we find the new, what we lack within ourselves, what we need to absorb to be better, to be more of ourselves, and happier. We need to look at the new or the different through a child’s eyes! Remember that curiosity that always urged us to want to know more and more, and ask the why and how of everything around us? Kid stuff right? In love with life! It is precisely this attitude that made our childhood the period in which we learned the most in our lives!
The arrogance, that wall of presumptuousness built to establish our inability to accept, our fear of becoming an appreciator of the differences may make us lonely among the crowd! Have you considered that? It is embarrassing for an arrogant egomaniac suddenly find themselves in a situation where they are not in the spotlight, a place where they may display their human shortcomings.
When they let their flaws to be seen they will find themselves open and exposed then they will receive, grow and expand, becoming “a magnetic point of attraction” of what they seek.
The egomaniac is puffed up for what they know and the power they have gained. They judge all the time what differs from their perspective and only accept what is external to their perspectives if it reaffirms their own concepts, using the others as a mirror to feel righteous and vain. On the contrary, humble people thrives precisely because they do not close their doors to the new, for the good that life offers them through new opportunities, new relationships, new learning or maybe a new lover that might bring the deepest and true feelings. This state of being would require an emotional maturity and involvement, because only then we can earn our inner values, which will make us stronger and happier. Consequently establishing personal relationships based on love, understanding and admiration.
ONE ONLY DEVELOPS IF THEY ENVELOPS themselves into the situations!! It is Universal Law! That’s how you create real emotional bonds, unlike the arrogant that at most generates around them shallow relationships, and attracts self-centred people as they are. The question that remain is: do you know how to accept from others? Do you know how to stand as an apprentice in your life? What about put your guards down and slowly take your defensive armour off that you deceptively think that “protects you” from suffering or being criticized, this armour not only “protects you” but isolate you from receiving or perceiving love, joy, sincere affection from people who want to give. Maybe, you know that when you give yourself to others, your genuine worth is shown and your true glow flares up. It is not necessary to be a stuck-up, as you become a worthy person for demonstrating your very essence and thus attract who truly understands and respects you. You can be yourself fully without pretending to be someone else, as one would behave when they feel threatened and tries to manipulate the situation, generating a web of lies. It’s an exhausting and frustrating way of life. Be simple! Be yourself with all your failures and successes, let go of submitting yourself to the external reality, which demands from you to pretending as a survival weapon. Start to experience your inner reality as the basis of your PERSONAL TRUTH, YOUR GREATEST GOOD!!!
