Indulgence

24-09-1978

• This is in essence an expansive quality, but the expansiveness of the person who has no energy for the act but only the desire.
• Indulgence of another, even if it is their strength, is not desirable as it is not a creative positive act.
• Indulgence is the expansion of form without the content. (Expansion of form without force is indulgence).
• Indulgence of another's weakness is pure dissipation. This is worse than indulging one's own weakness as in another's case the sin is camouflaged.
• By comparison indulgence is less pardonable than vanity which is a desire for value which one does not possess.
• Indulgence is a sign that vital strength at its roots is damaged.
• Indulgence is the counterpart of vanity at the vital plane. Vanity in the mind and indulgence in the vital are parallel faculties.
• He who cannot "go out" for conquest, "goes in" for depletion of the weak reserves. Indulgence is the result.
• Indulgence is ego's solicitude for falsehood.
• To mistake indulgence for generosity is to mistake ego for the personality.
• Indulgence is infectious in the sense once started man becomes an addict to it.