Subject: Re: Crabby Hermits
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 02:33:02 GMT
'... If you're going to aspire to sainthood, you cannot
be like everyone else ...'
I suspect the moment you 'aspire to sainthood' you've
probably blown it for good.
The world, after all, is full of obsessives - as a rule,
walking monuments to guilt - who, in their striving
for perfection, make life a misery for themselves &
all around them. By their demands & their example
of self-flagellation they fill their observers & especially
their dependents with guilt & feelings of inadequacy.
('Now, Jerry, how does that one feel? You look terrific
in it. I think it fits perfectly.') Among this lot you'll
find the clerics ('Yes, you too, Mother T. with your
antibiotic-hungry victims.'), all the humble little
wouldn't-presumers of the world, the Jewish mothers
of all denominations & your usual scattering of gurus
& Indian rope tricksters.
On the other hand, you do sometimes come across
something quite different, someone who lifts the heart
& fills the people he encounters with all the richness &
possibilities of life.
The latter signal the presence of what I understand
was originally meant by word 'charisma'. But I doubt
if sainthood ever occurred to them. And they NEVER
mention the words God or Enlightenment or Bhagabongo.
Scottie B.
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