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October 15th, 2007, 01:05 AM
BE OPEN AND EVER WILLING TO DISCUSSS YOUR FAITH WITH FULL FLEXIBILITY IF YOU ARE SURE OF IT'S RELIABILITY.
YES, WE HAVE TO CONTINUE SELF DISCOVERY TILL DEATH AND MUST NOT CLAIM THAT IT IS ENOUGH NOW BUT THERE ARE UNIVERSAL TRUTHS WHICH DO NOT CHANGE NOT SPECIAL TRUTHS AS CLAIMED BY SOME GROUPS ESPECIALLY RELIGIOUS.
Quoting Curiosity
To all the writers here....I enjoyed reading this again.... sometimes I find things I miss or misinterpret when I read them the first time - and unfortunately respond immediately rather than being patient and answering after a second or third reading.
Regarding self and discovery of self. I believe we are in constant change unless we refuse to learn any more for various reasons: health issues, mind issues, extreme poverty necessitating staying alive, trauma or imprisonment by some external force - that kind of life event.
What I can say honestly is that I hope self discovery continues until death. If we stop because we feel we arrived at our destination, I wonder if we have done a disservice to ourselves.
The journey is our life - it has the key to being alive. My greatest fear is one day I will be unable to learn any more. My only consolation is in memory of having passed along the learning to others.
Regarding self and discovery of self. I believe we are in constant change unless we refuse to learn any more for various reasons: health issues, mind issues, extreme poverty necessitating staying alive, trauma or imprisonment by some external force - that kind of life event.
What I can say honestly is that I hope self discovery continues until death. If we stop because we feel we arrived at our destination, I wonder if we have done a disservice to ourselves.
The journey is our life - it has the key to being alive. My greatest fear is one day I will be unable to learn any more. My only consolation is in memory of having passed along the learning to others.
BE OPEN AND EVER WILLING TO DISCUSSS YOUR FAITH WITH FULL FLEXIBILITY IF YOU ARE SURE OF IT'S RELIABILITY.
YES, WE HAVE TO CONTINUE SELF DISCOVERY TILL DEATH AND MUST NOT CLAIM THAT IT IS ENOUGH NOW BUT THERE ARE UNIVERSAL TRUTHS WHICH DO NOT CHANGE NOT SPECIAL TRUTHS AS CLAIMED BY SOME GROUPS ESPECIALLY RELIGIOUS.
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October 15th, 2007, 01:08 AM
Quoting Sal
Let us make efforts.
Agreed.
And that is the challenge. To know ourselves completely and purely.
I think it is the rare person who can actually understand that to think of onesself as better than another in anyway is a waste of time and hurtful to our soul and also to others. Everything is energy...it goes out as positive or negative. We decide what we send out. As a child you could not have been expected to understand that. As an adult you are fortunate that you do.
Now if you can just get the rest of the universe to understand this truth, things would vastly improve.
And that is the challenge. To know ourselves completely and purely.
I think it is the rare person who can actually understand that to think of onesself as better than another in anyway is a waste of time and hurtful to our soul and also to others. Everything is energy...it goes out as positive or negative. We decide what we send out. As a child you could not have been expected to understand that. As an adult you are fortunate that you do.
Now if you can just get the rest of the universe to understand this truth, things would vastly improve.
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October 15th, 2007, 01:12 AM
Quoting lone wolf
Free thoughts take out of any religion and pure meditaion takes into spirtuality.
By Church, I mean any organization who tells me the thoughts I should have to be a part of their flock. God granted me this ability to think my own thoughts, to have my own mind, to feel my own pain, and to live my own life. Do I honour my God in giving those gifts away so I can suffer shame and guilt not meant to be my own?
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October 15th, 2007, 01:19 AM
Quoting look3467
If by nakedness you mean a naked human heart not wraped in false attachments and affiliations of groups and selfish desires, I agree.
Nakedness!
Discovering ones nakedness is discovering who we are compared to God.
Otherwise who would we compare ourselves to, and why would we want to discover ourselves if it were not for God.
One would think that by the many thousands of years of discovery we would have arrived at the Utopian existence of humanity.
But as it is, we are just as naked as Adam.
What then is the difference in this whole scenario of human existence?
I believe it is discovering our nakedness and then allowing to be clothed with the dressings of God Himself.
Our nakedness is then hid in Him.
Whatever this God is to you, by whatever name you call Him, He is God and lover of all of us.
Peace>>>AJ
Discovering ones nakedness is discovering who we are compared to God.
Otherwise who would we compare ourselves to, and why would we want to discover ourselves if it were not for God.
One would think that by the many thousands of years of discovery we would have arrived at the Utopian existence of humanity.
But as it is, we are just as naked as Adam.
What then is the difference in this whole scenario of human existence?
I believe it is discovering our nakedness and then allowing to be clothed with the dressings of God Himself.
Our nakedness is then hid in Him.
Whatever this God is to you, by whatever name you call Him, He is God and lover of all of us.
Peace>>>AJ
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October 15th, 2007, 05:48 PM
Meaning, that knowledge revealed (Exposed)the sin nature of humanity which comes short of the requirement of righteousness to enter heaven. (discovered inperfection)
Thus knowledge does that. Causes us to see our in perfections. (Nakedness)
Peace>>>AJ
Quoting akbar
That is a form of nakedness, but the one of which I speak and what the Adam of the bible speaks is the nakedness of revealed sin. If by nakedness you mean a naked human heart not wraped in false attachments and affiliations of groups and selfish desires, I agree.
Meaning, that knowledge revealed (Exposed)the sin nature of humanity which comes short of the requirement of righteousness to enter heaven. (discovered inperfection)
Thus knowledge does that. Causes us to see our in perfections. (Nakedness)
Peace>>>AJ
