As another ENFP I really get what you are saying here. I do believe in listening to that "small, still voice" inside - but how to hear it is so often such a mess that it seems impossible to sort out. So how to proceed from there? Not sure.
In my marriage this always seems to come out around chores; not sure why that is.
I don't have huge feelings about Mother Teresa really - it's always seemed to me that she must have had to have a huge ego to go and GET people to care about lepers and so on and so forth, just like most saints sort of have if you really get into their lives (or else really weird mental problems). I tend to think it's more a weird concept of a kind of false humility within the Catholic err - ethos - that paints saints as humble, or calm. Or Jesus, for that matter - reading the Bible he's never come across to me as especially calm. Or even particularly humble. I've always taken that as a kind of PR gloss over the reality of messy human life.
I believe people often are driven to act out of their contradictions and doubts and I'm kind of glad to see some of hers coming to light.
Not sure this rambling really is helpful but - I -felt- like responding. :)
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Date: 2007-08-28 05:52 pm (UTC)In my marriage this always seems to come out around chores; not sure why that is.
I don't have huge feelings about Mother Teresa really - it's always seemed to me that she must have had to have a huge ego to go and GET people to care about lepers and so on and so forth, just like most saints sort of have if you really get into their lives (or else really weird mental problems). I tend to think it's more a weird concept of a kind of false humility within the Catholic err - ethos - that paints saints as humble, or calm. Or Jesus, for that matter - reading the Bible he's never come across to me as especially calm. Or even particularly humble. I've always taken that as a kind of PR gloss over the reality of messy human life.
I believe people often are driven to act out of their contradictions and doubts and I'm kind of glad to see some of hers coming to light.
Not sure this rambling really is helpful but - I -felt- like responding. :)