Unless we begin to see in greater scale we will remain imprisoned at our current level. There are level of Being waiting above us. We won’t grow into them automatically. It’s going to take properly directed efforts.
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"No good deed goes unpunished."
The person most frequently credited as the originator of the phrase is playwright Clare Boothe Luce. Also credited have been playwright Noel Coward, writer Oscar Wilde, journalist Walter Winchell and the late Washington Post writer Bill Gold. The original idea is probably an ancient proverb.
Appearing cynical on the surface, a closer examination of human nature reveals the False Personality to be incredibly vengeful and petty due to its hubris.
Plato has Socrates say, "An unexamined life is not worth living." The reason no good deed goes unpunished is because most people are living lives not worth living. If you feel a sting, that probably means you are spending more time and energy examining the lives of others than you are examining your own.
I love this one! It’s so brilliant! The idea of scale connects with the ideas of levels and lines of development in Integral Theory. If you can start to appreciate that everyone is in a particular place on the scale of development then you can have more compassion and understanding. You can put yourself in their shoes.