I Feel Upset

I Feel Upset

by what i perceive as rejection
i feel upset
by what i perceive as criticism
i feel upset
by what i perceive as attack
i feel upset
by what i perceive as un-interest
i feel upset
by what i perceive as difference
i feel upset
by what i perceive as your success not mine

pull to defend
pull to attack

what i forget
is that "i perceive" is not truth
but little me's
attempt to puff itself up

michael

"The ego's use of projection must be fully understood before the inevitable
association between projection and anger can be finally undone. The ego
always tries to preserve conflict. It is very ingenious in devising ways
that seem to diminish conflict, because it does not want you to find
conflict so intolerable that you will insist on giving it up. The ego
therefore tries to persuade you that can free you of conflict, lest you
give the ego up and free yourself. Using its own warped version of the laws
of God, the ego utilizes the power of the mind only to defeat the mind's
real purpose. It projects conflict from your mind to other minds, in an
attempt to persuade you that you have gotten rid of the problem."
(T-7.VIII.2)