The Supreme Manifestation Of Human Vanity
Extend the reference parameters of your identity, by regulating the intensity of the feelings you perceive and transmit to those around you.
El Dorado, the only oasis of prosperity in the midst of crisis, disturbed the sleep and obsessed the imagination of colored hordes of adventurers that ships discharged every day on the coast of Cuba and Espanola.
Likewise, the unmeasured Ego of this frail woman subjected to vanity, her only oasis of clearing in a dark world, haunts her, disturbs and obsesses her existence, satisfying the principle of action and reaction: "The force exerted by the first object to the second one is equal and opposite to the force exerted by the second object on the first one."
Laura Quinn’s life experience is similar to that of a survivor of the battle for the acquisition of a huge richness. The laws of her life reveals through the force of two separate units that move toward each other at different speeds, swirling around each other, colliding hard and absolutely destructive, like satellites in a planetary system, close up to neutralization: values and beliefs.
These two singular units, these two absolute opposites, subject to completely different laws, decidedly confront, obsessively bind, trompeuse et régressive, develop more vertically, through incessant rubbing, fatally including all her being. This decline gradually accentuates, with age, causing even more mental and emotional fragility.
Can you understand your life experiences based on the belief that everything that is being read as “an act of being in a world against the world” is filtered through a soulful strength that bears any kind of assault on conscience?
Laura Quinn faces a dilemma: recognize her guilt for stealing the diamonds worth a hundred million dollars, or refuse her avalanche of feelings and experiences that trigger the hope of fulfillment. That what belongs to her being and listens only to her, according to the essence that defines her, beyond any immediate reward, is the ability to imagine herself as being another person. The beginning of a new life and the chance of a new identity is first and foremost a sophisticated imaginative process that requires careful planning of each step and a lot of flexibility.
Decisive is all this state of irritation that continues especially emotionally, a configuration of existence by reversing individual poles, a long hibernation of positive emotions. Discontent leads to tension, a feeling of uneasiness, degenerating to acting in the direction opposite of the original.
This experience by which she only satisfies her vanity, this experience that does not bring her any further emotional benefit, this reversal of the scale of values, the duality between honesty and its antidote, between honesty and dishonesty, between darkness and light, between "to be" and "not to be" an orderly man, changes her track of life.
The spiritual strength Laura shows consists not in correlating the money with the motivation of her choices, in not letting people enter her world, in never falling, but rising up every time she falls. She endures any type of assault from her conscience, not because she manages to explain her deeds, not because her actions drive away her accumulated stress, but because she has managed to change the result of what was once through an excuse, an expression of repentance: “It was the hand of destiny, pure chance.”
Does Paul I’ words regarding Countess Vaninka may be valid for Laura Quinn in the movie "Flawless (2007)" ?
"If she has left some feelings of dignity, then her heart and remorse will show her the way she needs to grasp."
Do you accept the choice of experiencing a life experience by detaching from the soul experience of a turning point, respecting the concrete aspect of your choice as a consequence of the belief that “it’s fine the way it is”?
Life is like a ball that bounces: you can get it back; you can continue moving it from its destination to any other point. This is the strength we have, that willingly orders and wisely eliminates any destructive values and convictions. A whole world based on unstable foundations can, at any time, be reconstructed on granite ones. Only when faced with this confrontation, we show our true value.
Laure Quinn’s failure, the turning point and the detail that made the difference between a normal life and a life full of anxiety is due to her pride in not being like everyone else, of not being surpassed by others, of not yielding to the passing desires that appear at the superficial level of any being. Laura wanted to be more important than others, but had to risk her career when she began to realize that she is below everyone else when it comes to happiness.
Starting from the identity that you create by accurately referring to people, situations and events, installing a version of one's self that can't survive otherwise, than through the intensity of feelings that combine knowledge with values, can you choose the way to respond to actions that integrate under the umbrella of trust and self respect. Identity, called in question as the credibility between the parentheses of a fight with the deepest and strongest of feelings, has the transparency of a pure crystal that manages to cleanse/purify the energy around it, radiating a light as strong as the value that you expect others to recognize in you.
Leadership can have an extremely fair tone, which corresponds to the spiritual elevation and ethical burden in a continuous pithiness, by asserting your position as interpreter of the pro attitude mood, generating a wave of valuable appreciations among people that want to build a better future. In order to give a personal tone to your leader profile, that pulls you out of anonymity, without exaggerating or distorting in any way the natural direction of your own existence, it would be indicated to fill in your description area through the filter of positive emotion, with new enforcing and invigorating additions.
These sufficiently expressive additions, that aren't anything else than a continuous reminder of the best in you in front of the truth, in the first line of life's difficulties, gives you the opportunity to reduce the difference between what you are and what you want to be. Here you can distinguish the openness in front of your supreme greatness, or the closure in front of those that don't think like you, or are against the way in which you make things.
Do you identify with that unique feeling that can give meaning to your work, but which does not move your ability to overcome what’s happening to you in a dramatic way?
First of all, the leader is the example of a winner in the confrontation between two personalities. The first one is a "chameleon" personality that leads to sadness and hopelessness, through the undefeatable vanity of a loveless doctrine, or through ardent desire to have something that, in truth, it doesn't have. The second is a personality that frees itself of what it bears in its soul in order to be happier, thus giving hope to others that they can escape from the fatal identity that depends only on something changeable.
Director Robert Fritz said at some point: "If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
Affectionate leaders, who successfully relate to the people around them, know that being reasonable means doing something so as the chord of their own sensibility can vibrate, but at the same time doesn't break in stress conditions, overwork or obstructions due to the so called "dark thoughts". The compromise that you can make is to lose your self-respect, accepting a rudimentary, simple way of life – a consumerist way of life where nothing is worthwhile anymore.
Take into account the unique feeling that can give meaning to your work but which does not move your ability to overcome what’s happening in a dramatic way: “what I had and what I lost.”
The expression of a spiritual trauma comes from the strength of choosing what you prefer to ignore and resist in this choice.
The Supreme Manifestation Of Human Vanity highlights one of the mildest types of pride. Specifically, the kind that you find in superficial people, in those who don't understand the point of suffering of not getting everything in life – which, in leadership, can take the shape of a personal investment that takes into consideration involvement and the wish to change something in the world, assuming moral responsibility.
