The more I read the news these days, the more obvious seems to me, the suspicion that spirituality is becoming some kind of a new religion. It is very fashionable nowadays to practice some kind of a fancy named therapy or healing, and when some women on TV was asked what kind of practices will be used in her newly founded society, she simply replied, anything that works. What a hypo-criticism… Isn’t this part of ourselves supposed to be made out of our most intimate and our deepest believes? And not to be polluted with every wannabe spiritual practice (huge business has grown out of this) that comes our way and is lucky enough to show us some quick term (very questionable most of the times) result? More and more I get the feeling that huge majority of these people only seek some kind of rebellion to our current mainstream religions and have no real intention to head themselves on a road of self-exploration and a search of their life’s meaning and finding their own purpose of existence. But what is the point of all that then?
So I still believe that it really doesn’t matter what religion, spiritual practice or something else you choose for yourself, as long as it follows it’s purpose: to get to know yourself better, expand your wisdom and find the answers to your life’s most intimate questions of existence, purpose, etc. Because you will always be your strictest judge and I bet (at least for myself) that you wouldn’t want to have to realize at the end, that you spent all your life for some sloppy teachings with no real value, while barely knowing yourself, not knowing of all the potential and mysterious depths, we all humans are blessed with.
Tags: religion, spirituality, wisdom
How do you expect to become a part of a fairy tale romance, like one of those so highly praised from your favourite movies, when you totally lost belief in sincerety of all men. Of course there are “players” looking for nothing more than a trophy and confirmation from others, but there are also men with more or less the same expectations and desires in their life as yours – to enjoy its every bit, fully express themselves and create long lasting sincere, win-win relationships.
Tags: expectations, love, relationships
Great chapter, well-worth reading, I found today, while reading Psycho-Cybernetics, written by Maxwell Maltz. If you like it, you can buy yourself a copy of this book here.
Much mischief results from our taking a “moral” position on matters which are not basically moral matters at all.
For example, self-expression, or lack of it, is not basically an ethical question, aside from the fact that it is our “duty” to use the talents which our Creator gave us.
Yet, self-expression may become morally “wrong” as far as your conscience is concerned, if you were squelched, shut-up, shamed, humiliated, or perhaps punished as a child for speaking up, expressing your ideas, “showing off.” Such a child “learns” that it is “wrong” to express himself, to hold himself out as having any worthwhile ideas, or perhaps to speak at all.
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Tags: behavior, expression
I am still strongly convinced in the existence of fairy tales… Because I am the main star in one. And next time you define happiness with money and material goods, you should watch the following movie (Slumdog Millionaire (2008)). There are many people living way below our standards, with no access to services and goods we take as most trivial and granted, but still I could bet I can find as many if not more happy and blissful people amongst them. So be grateful for what you got, always strive for improvement (within reasonable limits), enjoy your life and make others to enjoy theirs too. Because we all have the ability to live the life of suffering and sorrow and we also have the ability to enjoy every day, relationship, person or event in all its blissfulness. It all depends on attitude towards life we choose for ourselves…
Persist long enough, despite prejudices and criticism, and non-believers will vanish one after the other.
Tags: cause, persistence
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