This is the opposite of what Jesus teaches, and in the Thomas material, Logion 42 more than anything else makes the point. It is not for nothing that Pursah in Gary's books calls that her favorite saying Logion 42: "Be Passersby." You get there by realizing with William Shakespeare that "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players." (And that includes you, kid! Not to mention it includes me too.)
There is one thing however that we should take very personally, and that is Jesus talking to us, as he does in the sayings. It seems to me many times that the very direct form of the Thomas sayings has that for its main purpose, to get our attention, and to relate to its source as if we were in a direct dialog. Thus to get out of our standing aside, and playing amateur historian, studying what this fellow Jesus said to this other fellow Thomas, as if it had nothing to do with us. Instead, we now have the opportunity to enter our own direct relationship with Jesus, and that is the clue to working with this material, as it is also with A Course in Miracles.
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