Cooperation

Been busy with school stuff and trying to get everything ready for the season. I've been re-reading a New Earth here and there, just to keep my head on straight. And I read this section, which seemed very appropriate for what I've been dealing with lately. So, I decided to share.

"People unknowingly sabotage their own work when they withhold help or information from others or try to undermine them lest they become more successful or get more credit than “me”. Cooperation is alien to the ego, except when there is a secondary motive. The ego doesn’t know that the more you include others, the more smoothly things flow and the more easily things come to you. When you give little help to others or put obstacles in their path, the universe—in the form of people and circumstance—gives little or no help to you because you have to cut yourself off from the whole. The ego’s unconscious core feeling of “not enough” causes it to react to someone’s else’s success as if that success had taken something away from “me”. It doesn’t know that your resentment of another person’s success curtails your own chances of success. It order to attract success, you need to welcome it wherever you see it." -- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth