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Re: FOUR: Escaping the Despair, plus ANY HEALTHY FOURS??
Re: FOUR: Escaping the Despair, plus ANY HEALTHY FOURS??
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Posted by John DiFool (4w5) on June 06, 1998 at 08:50:40:
In Reply to: Re: FOUR: Escaping the Despair, plus ANY HEALTHY FOURS?? posted by Michelle on June 05, 1998 at 18:50:14:
To boil a 5,000 word essay into one paragraph, the key for Fours is to
move their "center" from within themselves to outside themselves. Fours
tend to be possibly the most "self-obsessed" type in that they are
constantly fussing about THEIR feelings, THEIR moods, THEIR pathetic
lives (love lives most especially!), how rotten everyone is treating
THEM, and so on. By shifting this center from inside to outside they avoid this trap (even
though ultimately of course there is no inside & outside, only Unity).
Possible strategies in this regard include volunteer work, conservation
work (moi), charity, etc. A call to service-ultimately, the
Bodhisattva responsibility of helping others toward enlightenment (at
whatever level). Only in this way can Fours avoid the self-obsessive
trap they often create for themselves. John DiFool (an almost-healthy Four! ;-)
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