From The Daily Dialogue
From The Daily Dialogue
Broadcast of 6/5/98
Subject: [DailyDialogue #155] Oneness
"The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another."
- George Bernard Shaw
In Roman mythology, Pygmalion was a king of Cyprus who hated women and resolved never to marry. He sculpted a statue of a beautiful woman and fell in love with it. His prayer was answered and the statue was brought to life as Galatea. She returned his love and bore him a son, Paphos.
George Bernard Shaw wrote a play about the myth in which he transformed Eliza from a lower class woman to an upper class lady. The play has been referred to as an exploitation of one human being by another. Was Henry Higgins using Eliza for selfish purposes or was he supporting her in realizing her dream?
When we treat each other as souls that are equal in value, we find that the positive aspect of self-fulfilling prophecy tends to unfold. When we make our partner our project, wanting to make them in our image of beauty, we are exploiting them
Experiment: Dialogue with your partner about whether you are attempting to change them into your image of a perfect partner or supporting them in fulfilling their dream.
Affirmation:
I am one with the universe divinely guided as to the direction
I am to go.
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