ANNET LAMOTT’S THOUGHTS ON FORGIVENESS, SELF-FORGIVENESS AND ALSO THE RELATIONSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN BEING BROKE AND JOY

Annet Lamott has some thought provoking things that he has illustrated about forgiveness, forgiving ourselves, self-forgiveness and also how having joy may be related to  being broke or facing poverty.

 Annet Lamott has outlined that humans are hardwired with curiosity inside themselves, because life knew that this would keep them going even when things are bad in their lives. 

Life will always feed anyone who is ready to taste it’s food, wonder and also glee with an immediate response. There are very few things in life that are very sweet like the artificial sweetness of being right. 

The delicious thought of being right may in the long run turn into doom and this is just a matter of having feelings rather than actually being it. 

This in the long run will end up evolving into emotional triggers and also moral motives. 

Then with time we cast these emotional triggers and moral motives on the people that we think are wrong and these people will also do the same to us with time. 

When we are in the middle of these righteous grenades, we should maintain a clear-minded and also a pure hearted relationship with the reality that does exist within us. 

We do always think that self-forgiveness and self-respect are the ultimate keys for unlocking the required capacity for joy that will make life worth living but that is actually not the case. 

In the book, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, Annet Lamott reveals his wisdom and wonderful insights on uncommon self-awareness and also generosity, this small book gave us the thoughts of Annet Lamott on love, despair and also our ability to change.

 Lamott wrote that when we are stuck within our convictions and personalities, we will enter into the disease of always having good ideas and being right at all costs. 

We shall believe that we have unlocked the truth, with our burnished surfaces and also articulation.

 The truth is that the bigger we pump ourselves up, the easier it will be for us to be pricked with a simple piece of a pin. When we get bigger, it will be very difficult for us to see the earth seating beneath our feet. 

We have all gone through the horrow of thinking that we are right with a capital R whether it is in politics or custody disputes or our religious beliefs. This act of feeling that we are right is so hot, steamy and very exciting until something is unearthed pulled from within us. 

Then at that point in time, we develop the feeling that we actually never even knew that the truth actually was except what everyone else knows and that we are actually lonely, hollow and also stripped to our naked human selves. 

This is the worst thing that can happen to human being on earth, this truth about how little truth we actually do know. You may hate and resent this but it is where new life actually comes from. 

If we are to be true to ourselves, we should let go of the convictions that are tightly holding onto us which convictions do keep us small, severed and also separated from the richness that life does offer  and these are the gallows  on which our identities  and beliefs do dwell on.

 According to poet Diane Ackerman it is called the plain everythingness of everything else. Bertrand Russel, half a century ago said that the key to growing old when you are content is to make your interests wider gradually and also make them more impersonal, until bit by bit the time when the walls of the ego do crack and recede and then your life will become increasingly merged in the universal life. 

According to Lamott, what does comfort us the fact that after making ourselves crazy enough, we can now let go of ourselves inch by inch into just being here and this should be very often. In nature something is always flowing. 

Glaciers are just rivers that are moving at a slow pace and therefore how can there be no flow in each one us? 

When we get detached by the act of tragedy or choice from the tendrils that store identity or unexpected elements that do feed us, there is always weird food that is actually flowing, it is just like the wiggly bits that birds do watch for the tidal channels.

 An example of the foods that we do know are proteins and greens that these do look very obvious to us, even buoyancy will look very obvious to us when we do not bury ourselves into despair. 

There is truly a shared flow of existence in nature and poet Lucille Clifton calls this the bond of live things everywhere and there arises a calm universal compassion. This compassion has become the best anti-dote self-righteousness.

 Lamott wrote in his magnificent book that almost everybody is already screwed up, broken, very clingy, very scared and yet we are designed to be filled with joy.

 The people who seem to have everything together are actually like the rest of us than you will actually believe. 

We should not try to compare our insides with the outsides of those people because this will actually make us worse than we already are.

 If you are lucky enough to get to know these people, you will discover that they do have a lot of irritability and also a shadow of their own. Even those few people who are not a mess  are actually good for a few minutes of dinner conversation.