Love and Ignorance

So I read a few articles today by Andrew Cohen (Evolutionary Enlightenment) where he was talking about the undeveloped emotional landscape of the vast majority of us adult human beings.  He didn't put it in those exact words--his words had more to do with narcissism and ego--but they are pretty much the same thing when you start looking at the identifying behaviors.

Such stupid ignorance--yes, stupid ignorance--is rampant.  People walk around asleep and don't even know it.  They are so full of their own interpretations of reality that it would not even occur to them that they might be acting their way through their life rather than consciously choosing who they are and what is true of them.

Most of us would be surprised if a cultural anthropologist observed us for a year.  We'd find out all sorts of things about ourselves that we'd probably find angering (because we'd dislike hearing it), disappointing, revealing, and, well, new.

What Cohen was talking about in some of his articles was the difference between integrity and spiritual evolution and how common it is to search for the latter and ignore the former.  He said that it has been his experience that there aren't a whole lot of people he's met whose character combines the two.

Boy, he ain't kiddin'.