right now, to me being spiritual is all about being led by your inner spirit and includes .
1. being in tune with the goodness within and treating people how you would like to be treated.
2. being in tune with nature and appreciating the beauty and complexity of the universe.
Terry
Spirituality is a concept which lays cuckoo's eggs in your consciousness by substituting a meaningless word for actual words with actual definitions. When the egg hatches, you are a blubbering, incoherent boob with drool running down your cheek!
All human concepts do that imo to an extent.
We all get to have our own opinions. We don't get make up our own facts.
Some of what we call facts today may well turn out to be the opinions of yesteryear in the future.
right now, to me being spiritual is all about being led by your inner spirit and includes .
1. being in tune with the goodness within and treating people how you would like to be treated.
2. being in tune with nature and appreciating the beauty and complexity of the universe.
Spiritual to me is appreciation of the intrinsic beauty and impermanence of nature.
Borrowing a line above from crumpet and emphasizing that I include our own impermanence too.
we had a trip round the rockies a couple of weeks ago.
is there anywhere more picturesque than this?!.
i still can't believe we live just hours from this .... .
Amazing scenery - that's where I'm gonna live in the new system
Lighter
curious about that one.
were visiting my wifes family in new orleans this week, and she brought up going see her relatives graves.
if they do how does the experience differ from a non-witness.
My husband and I (he's a dub - very zealous, an elder too) have started visiting his dad's grave with his non dub mum. We've been planting fresh flowers and have discovered another 2 relatives buried in the same graveyard - so we've taken those on board too. We don't pray for the dead or anything like that though. Its very peaceful and enjoyable.
so we were just freinds.
i was just becoming good freinds with her best freind's brother, which is now gone.
so i smile back and say "good, not much.
I look at my problem unbiasedly....and all I can think is: "This is your worst problem? That's IT!? Why would such a petty thing as one girl bother you to this extreme extent?"
The only answer I can come up with is....I am weak. I have noone to hold me and tell me everything will be OK. Noone is there that I can talk to. Anyone who could possibly give a damn is in no position to help. And above all....
I am alone.
(((((((Anony-Mouse)))))))))))
If you'r gonna call yourself weak then you have to call us all weak (I have no problem with that) cos we've all experienced the feelings you've described - rejection, betrayal, cold heartedness, aloneness and of course the beautiful love and friendship you feel for this girl. You are gonna see what you describe in the movies and read about it in books - but it will never be as real as when you experience it yourself.
This is advice from someone much older. So live it and continue telling about it. We care - you're not annonymous here.
they say that our spiritual food is sooo refreshing!
it's "just what we needed"!.
how did you feel after going out in the ministry or after a meeting?.
I always returned feeling disappointed with myself that I hadn't done more to help, encourage, participate ....
i just found out about an hour ago.
he wasn't even old enough to drink yet.. to make it even sh*ttier, he had called me a few weeks ago and asked if he could come out here with me but i couldn't do it at the time.
so of course the first thing that comes to mind is if i had done something different it wouldn't have happened.. he was going through the sh*t as i call it, when witnesses go off the deep end and get into everything in the world to stop hurting and they don't even know what is wrong.
(((((wlg)))))
who processes info for you?
w the flow of information through newspapers, tv, radio and, last but not least, the internet, information has become a veritable flood.
through the internet, you can learn about almost anything.
Are you able to process on the run, or do you have to stop the flow in order to process it?
For convenience sake I used to process on the run. Nowadays I tend to have to stop the flow to process. I find going back and re-checking, maybe the next day sometimes, gives me a different understanding. Its time consuming but worth it.
Also I find looking at a subject from different angles and comparing with what others have written helps too. Mental gymnastics - lol
i've long known, and most of you probably have as well, that there was something not all there with me.
mostly i put it down to me being bad.
questions i've never been asked before.
(((((((crumpet))))))))
the highs your describe sound amazing - maybe one day scientists will discover how individuals can harness the creativity they unleash.
