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Do you try to instead move on to people that give you comforting words?

Do you actually like hearing people that challenge you.

Advice that is, that doesn't ask us to change our ways

and makes us comfortable with what we're doing already is advice that we like.

But advice that makes us uncomfortable with our present state is generally advice that our

Nefs is inclined to reject. The Nefs has a knee-jerk

reaction to advice that challenges it. And it is a major issue that a person could have because you know who the most comforting advisor in the world is?

Who do you guys think it is?

Chaitan. What a comforting advisor he is.

He would tell you that I've just been a sincere advisor to you this whole time.

Why?

Because he'll tell you everything you want to hear every single time. And the Shay-Al-Tin around you, not here in the Masut, but in your

life that will actually congratulate you when you are doing wrong.

That will actually celebrate your wrongdoing,

that will pet you on the back and not tell you when you're messing up.

And you like having people like that around you because it

makes you feel good with your present self and there are many ways that we delude

ourselves sometimes we delude ourselves by ourselves and sometimes we delude ourselves

by surrounding ourselves with those who make us more comfortable and complacent with our delusion. And if you look at the habit of the righteous, not only

did they not hate a Nansahine, did they not hate those that would give them

advice, they actually loved people more like that.

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