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Revision as of 05:03, 19 November 2011
Situations Distracting to Students
- Past relationships no longer supporting the movement in your life
- Self-important or mindless conversation, gossip, excessive sharing
- Attachment to pre-conceived ideas or ambitions
- Self-doubt, the need for self-justification or validation
- Romantic attachments fostering fantasy over real relationship
- Romantic visions of one's own role in the world
Abuses of Knowledge
- Confusing Knowledge with personal preference
- Rushing ahead of Knowledge
- Failing to vericate with an ally in times of confusion or desire
- Demanding full understanding, fabricating rationalization in the absence of understanding
Characteristics of Pitfalls
- Arrogant, ignorant disregard for counsel
- Diffuse focus: multiplying places, people, things, ideas; dabbling
- Appropriation of another's way for one's own
- Impatience, ambition
Typical errors
- The belief there is no end of learning
- Premature judgment, particularly of one's own past
- Escapism, world renunciation
- Self-deception or feigned ignorance
- False assumptions
See also
Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 14: "What Must Be Avoided?"