“An added discipline for this week might be to say nothing negative about anyone else or about yourself. This will give you more energy for inner work on the subject [self-observation]. If you find it a difficult discipline to keep, do not be discouraged. A discipline is to help us learn, and there is often more learning in failure than in success.”
–Elizabeth O’Connor, Our Many Selves, p. 71
feeling the need to acknowledge the negative at the very least to myself. .. when customers come into Chico’s I often start an interaction by saying .”how are you doing?’ I often get the reply – “can’t complain.” Being polite. Paul Valéry said, “Politeness is organized indifference.” Self-observation not as fun as it sounds. 🙂