Self-honesty, self-help and freedom...

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The nature of the human psyche is "other-other" based ("each other"). People are addressed as others by others "Hi John, how are you doing today?" and the person addressed replies to the other ("Good, fred, and you?").

It could be said, then, that the psyche is the other, and that others are the self.

Others have self's problems, and self's solutions.

This puts self on a treadmill of seeing others as full of problems and trying to fix them, as well as seeking help from others, and rarely or never receiving it.

The oft-painful truth is that self is an "other" seeking help and answers from their own self seen in the eyes of others.

Acceptance and taking back one's problems, is the only lasting and permanent solution.

Otherwise one is on a lifetime treadmill of looking for love in all the wrong places.

Can you guess how many of those places there are?

Get free of the machine.  Look.  See.

Peace...

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I send the above message to my own self, whom I love and care deeply about.

The human race.

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Desire gets caught up in desire. 

One desires to wants to desire more, and runs faster and faster on the treadmill.

Fear gets caught up in fear.  One becomes afraid of fear, and avoids looking at it.

See that what one fears is the opposite of what one desires, and what one desires is the opposite of what one fears.  The pairs of opposites are co-dependent and complementary.

The only way to conquer fear is to see it as desire's opposite, rather than having a "nature in itself".

No one wants to conquer desire, but fear will always be a problem if one isn't willing to look at it.

Peace...