hate, despair, depressiveness

Telling another to “lighten up” or be more positive can be shame-inducing, however nicely we might do it. What if they need to stay with their hate or despair or depressiveness for a while? How can we be sure that they’d be better off getting away from such states as soon as possible? Perhaps at such times we are — through our contact with their endarkened condition — starting to feel more in touch with such states in ourselves, and want the other to get away from their “darkness” so that we don’t have to feel our own. — Robert Augustus Masters

Wonderful article by Robert Masters on Beyond Meds:

●  Don’t give fear a thought

Books by Masters:

●  Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters

●  Meeting The Dragon: Ending Our Suffering By Entering Our Pain

●  Transformation through Intimacy, Revised Edition: The Journey toward Awakened Monogamy