No worries; just say that you’ve “begun to develop” the same capacity, after establishing (as I believe you’ve already done with clarity) that you believe that the whole human race can attain the fullness for which you are also striving.
Unless you really did mean “developed,” as in, you’ve already developed it.
In which case, that’s an extraordinary claim. People will tend to assign it low probability and (seeking an alternate explanation) attribute your claim to it as plausibly resulting from an inflated sense of your own accomplishment, i.e. pride and arrogance, unless you provide extraordinary evidence that you speak truly.
If you really think you’ve already achieved MLK or Ghandi-esque compassion, based on what you’re describing, I wonder if an apter comparison might be the Greek Stoics, a lack of negative reaction resulting from not perceiving an authentic attack, rather than by superhuman dominance of your negative emotions, and a superabundance of positive emotions.
Your description of not feeling insulted because people are only responding naturally to a misunderstanding of you is familiar to me, as is the accompanying lack of offense stemming therefrom.
I don’t doubt you might really have no offense at all in this area, and if it is only in this area that you believe to have Gandhi-esque powers, just clarify that you aren’t referring to mastery of every manifestation of love, only this particular one, and that for you it has come by not perceiving an offense, rather than by overcoming your offense.
What I mean is “what I’ve developed recently is in the same general direction of what they had”, not “my affective disposition is identical with that of MLK’s.” I don’t have strong views how exactly how close the similarity is, I just know that I’m much further in that direction than I was before.
I don’t personally know that MLK had this specific quality. I’ve made explicit what you have implied, that he did. Even if he did have it, I don’t think you could reduce his general capacity for love to this one idea, hence “part of.”
But to avoid apparent arrogance, perhaps the first sentence of the second-to-last paragraph might be written like so.
“This perspective I’m developing is part of what gave Martin Luther King the capacity to feel universal love and compassion.”
No worries; just say that you’ve “begun to develop” the same capacity, after establishing (as I believe you’ve already done with clarity) that you believe that the whole human race can attain the fullness for which you are also striving.
Unless you really did mean “developed,” as in, you’ve already developed it. In which case, that’s an extraordinary claim. People will tend to assign it low probability and (seeking an alternate explanation) attribute your claim to it as plausibly resulting from an inflated sense of your own accomplishment, i.e. pride and arrogance, unless you provide extraordinary evidence that you speak truly.
If you really think you’ve already achieved MLK or Ghandi-esque compassion, based on what you’re describing, I wonder if an apter comparison might be the Greek Stoics, a lack of negative reaction resulting from not perceiving an authentic attack, rather than by superhuman dominance of your negative emotions, and a superabundance of positive emotions.
Your description of not feeling insulted because people are only responding naturally to a misunderstanding of you is familiar to me, as is the accompanying lack of offense stemming therefrom. I don’t doubt you might really have no offense at all in this area, and if it is only in this area that you believe to have Gandhi-esque powers, just clarify that you aren’t referring to mastery of every manifestation of love, only this particular one, and that for you it has come by not perceiving an offense, rather than by overcoming your offense.
Thanks, this is fine.
What I mean is “what I’ve developed recently is in the same general direction of what they had”, not “my affective disposition is identical with that of MLK’s.” I don’t have strong views how exactly how close the similarity is, I just know that I’m much further in that direction than I was before.
I don’t personally know that MLK had this specific quality. I’ve made explicit what you have implied, that he did. Even if he did have it, I don’t think you could reduce his general capacity for love to this one idea, hence “part of.” But to avoid apparent arrogance, perhaps the first sentence of the second-to-last paragraph might be written like so.
“This perspective I’m developing is part of what gave Martin Luther King the capacity to feel universal love and compassion.”
Thanks.