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Walk Away from Self-Pity

James Anderson

Abstract
One must learn to walk away from self-pity and not give it access. Coming from outside,
a product of adverse forces, it seeks resonance within. It feeds off ego and thrives in those
with less robust vitality. First, one be attentive to its presence and learn to short-circuit its
habitual movements by ‘catching’ the vibration as it rises to the surface. Short of that, one can
review real-life experiences to understand the cause and even modify future outcomes. These
are remedial actions but an aspiring continuity of practice will remove all resonance to this
damaging vibration.

being, because it always seeks permanence.
Like virtually all our emotional impulses, it
is habitual and repeats itself in well-trodden
grooves and can become chronic. It is the
cause of depression and festers particularly
in those with a less robust vitality. Self-pity
provides the base for depression to spread
and grow.

Self-pity feeds off resonance. Triggered by
influxes from outside, it gives a warped answer
“Selfishness and self-pity lead nowhere. You to all the deficits inside us. The vibration comes
would do better to get rid of them — for it is from the adverse forces that know how to prey
these two narrow movements which prevent on any weakness. A trigger comes but the
you from feeling the Divine’s help and love reaction depends on the individual. The
(1).” same input produces opposite results in
two contrasting people. Everything depends
Few conditions are more debilitating than upon the leaning of the person’s nature. The
self-pity. It traumatises and can enmesh the Mother places suffering in two categories:

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