http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7rfJ9RPY0U
Can you imagine Gandhi being self-indulgent. I can't.
How about an Olympic decathlete; a Tour de France medalist hopeful; Dr.
Kim, who recently took over the World Bank, a globally acclaimed humanitarian;
Diane Wilson, who as I recall lives in a $1000 trailer and Texas; and maybe the
most illustrative example of all, how about the good parents that have just
learned that unless they sell their house and everything they are and have to
pay for the operation of their beloved daughter, she'll die, how
self-indulgent, do you think they will be?
Elsewhere in this series it's been discussed how the potent
activist lives and embodies totally the family emergency response. The family emergency response is the
antithesis, the opposite of self-indulgence.
It is all about giving everything it has and everything it is. Out of some weird, self sacrificial-ness? No,
out of total solidarity with the people that they shield. Those people, their pain is immediately and totally
the pain of the true activist.
The Potent Activist is selfish. They want to stop that pain; they want to
stop that suffering, which is their own.
And it's been spoken of elsewhere in these essays, the potent activist
is extremely selective of who they work with, as should a good surgeon be who
loves their patient.
So zero, I mean,
taunts, rants, ‘oh I got really mad so I whatever,’ ‘oh he clubbed me, so I
whatever.’
No. Not on Gandhi's
team; not on King's team. They love
you. They'll fight for you. Not Gandhi's team.
The brain surgeon, 'Oh, I just stuck my finger, darn that's
why the scalpel slipped.' No, failure is
not an option.
Self-indulgence with the true, potent activist is not an
option. It doesn't happen. And it doesn't happen with you in anything
you really care about in your life.
Right?
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