Chapter 59: Children offered by nobles or by the poor
Everything concerned with this property should be negotiated in such a way that not the slightest hint of personal expectations can be entertained by the child in a way which could lead through deception to ruin. (From para. 2 of Ch. 59 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)
A sense of entitlement, what I think I deserve or is due to me, expectations of a material or interpersonal nature -- these are all facets of my ego striving for its own importance. My participation in a loving community, and our practice of meditation, keeps me from ruin.
A sense of entitlement, what I think I deserve or is due to me, expectations of a material or interpersonal nature -- these are all facets of my ego striving for its own importance. My participation in a loving community, and our practice of meditation, keeps me from ruin.
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