we need to recognize that there are destructive forces…

Page 210 keyword religion we need to recognize that there are destructive forces operating in our lives. I'm referring to whatever seems to pull us away from what is in our best interest. All religions deal with this destructive force. They have many names for it colon illusion, ignorance, sin, attachment, poor self-image, the lower pulls of breed and desire, evil, inertia, unconscious forces, Satan, entropy, and more. Has one begins in earnest to walk the spiritual awake, ones are awareness of this inner warfare becomes keener. Truly useful choices and thoughts are opposed by a force that counters who cares? It takes courage to change and become aware of this and what is really going on. We need to form a positive self-image. Often we do not reach for our highest potential because it does not harmonize with our image of ourselves. When we were children, many of us developed a picture of ourselves as stupid, selfish, weak, ugly, able to carry through, or lacking in this or that. Because of all those big people kind of like parents teachers, told us these things, we decided they were true to some extent. We foreign poor self-images and we continue to cling to them. To live well and mature successfully we must let go of the inferior notions of ourselves to reach out for our strengths. The first step in overcoming the counter pull is honesty - - to admit we're being drawn backwards, that we are failing, dissatisfied, and not in control.

— from The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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The danger is only in pretending the sky has no tower because you cannot always see it, or in imagining your life is a solo enterprise on which you alone succeed or fail by your own merit, which is the surest recipe for both arrogance and despair. And make no mistake — there are genuinely destructive forces loose in a life, headwinds that want to pull you off the heading, and naming them honestly is part of flying well. [Here, tell them about a time you were certain you were flying alone — and only understood much later that you were not: a rescue you did not arrange, a door that opened that you never pushed on.] — The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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