Talk:2002-01-25-Personality, Supreme, Michael's Plan, Melchizedeks

Anecdote or Antidote?

Russ wrote: Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:13 PM

I like the quote better if I change "anecdotes" to "antidotes".

Each of you have traits that are annoying to other people. This is a wonderful opportunity to practice your sense of humor, because each of you are so precious - such children - and you all mean so well. Irritations are almost like anecdotes; they can make people more beloved to others. When you truly have a sense of spiritual joy within you, then these irritations fall away. - Olfana

Rob wrote tml cc'ing Jim Cleveland :Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:48 PM

Hello Russ!

Thank you for sharing your thought! We should check with Jim to be sure, but I enclose here a "definition" of anecdote that could warrant its present usage. However, I like to defer to the 'source' for such conundrums even while recording individual considerations in the lesson's discussion page.

Jim and any others?

Gratefully,

Rob

enc: anecdote

anecdote |ˈanikˌdōt| noun

• a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person: told anecdotes about his job | he had a rich store of anecdotes.
• an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay: his wife's death has long been the subject of rumor and anecdote.
• the depiction of a minor narrative incident in a painting.
• ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from French, or via modern Latin from Greek anekdota ‘things unpublished,’ from an- ‘not’ + ekdotos, from ekdidōnai ‘publish.’

Jim wrote: Wed, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:51 AM

Hi Rob,

I believe the word she used was 'antidotes' but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she meant anecdotes and my mouth said anti instead of anec.

This remains thought provoking to me as to how to understand it. I have rarely transmitted Olfana. Maybe she will visit again.

best wishes, jim

Rob wrote: Wed, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM

Hello Jim-

Thanks for your reply! It adds depth to the inherent ambiguity of langauge when used for eliciting deeper levels of perception.

I share your uncertainty, but initially allowed the existing text to stand as the term "anecdote", when used in relation to 'irritations' implied as unreal the false characterizations of beautiful souls each of us are in truth beneath the surface of the "unreliable" accounts so often on display to purely mortal senses. When 'seen' as such are a source of humor. I say this only because of Yogananda's assurance to me that disagreements occur in higher worlds as well, but rather than being a source of chagrin, are a source of humor.

In light of both your seeming to lean toward the use of antidote coupled with Russ' suggestion, I will change the text as such, but due to the uncertainty, I will leave a link to this discussion for those who might wonder along with us.

Gratefully,

Rob