Spirituality for Living

Circumstance. People really believe in that idea don’t they?
Circumstance, yes. People giving me the long list of how I could do something, but they can’t even though they say they want to. People have long lists of circumstance. The blind expectation thing again.
With proper awareness expectation can embrace a range of outcomes, and allow you [...]

Did today go as you expected friends? There is a lot of teaching against expectation in today’s spiritual circles is there not? Almost as if it were a serious moral faux pas. Anyone gotten rid of it yet? If you have rid yourself of expectations, how did you do it?
Don’t plan anything just let it [...]

Quick poll. For who do expectations feel disempowering?
I really felt them to be at work limiting. I felt they limited what I could achieve.
I’ve never felt disempowered.
They can be discouraging if they are given too much emotional weight when they are not met.
For who have expectations felt empowering?
Not me.
Me, I get all tingly.
I haven’t felt [...]

We are in a world that is moving and growing. We are living in it and with it.
What the process of expectation is with the blinders off is being aware of your place in the dance. Being aware of your neighbours as well as knowing what you do will affect others, and what they do [...]

Everyone expecting the class? First off, I will start with why I asked that question. Do any of you have no expectations at all?
I have at least one.
I find it hard not to expect.
My duality brings some, but I try not to acknowledge them.
I always have at least some, even though I try not to [...]

I’m setting myself up for a new experience pretty soon by enlisting in the Navy. And will learn much, though some may say it’s questionable. What in the end isn’t questionable?
Free will. Yes, which is where questions arise from, and answers, and delusion, and the resultant liberation.
I certainly questioned it. I still do, but I [...]

I recently got in a fight. A fist fight, and realized that the guy who busted my lip and messed up my jaw probably grew up in a terrible environment without love. Actually, even if he did not, whatever motivated him is still about him. Some people rebel even if raised in a loving family. [...]

Our Spiritual Darkness class at One World, Many Paths is a bit less formal. It‘s more about being able to share the darker side of our spiritual lives without judgement and maybe receive some support. As usual advice is cheap, so any offered is not meant to offend.
So maybe for a bit of darkness, doubt/insecurity maybe? Ever [...]

An iconoclast is not necessarily faithless. As a matter of fact, Judaism has what could be considered a tradition of what could be called iconoclastic behaviour; formal debate of their law.
Islam as I understand it is iconoclastic? Islam is iconoclastic in the literal sense, but has many strictly orthodox sects though some that aren’t considered [...]

Iconoclasm has taken many forms across world cultures.
I just remember the type that smash icons. Some factions smashed icons that they felt were not adequate or proper representations. They weren’t all absolutely opposed to any image at all. In fact, Catholicism has had iconoclastic movements without actually rejecting any representation at all.
In part, there have [...]

Iconoclasm is a very old spiritual and philosophical paradox. On the one hand it differs from atheism in that it does not deny the reality of truth or God, but it challenges codification of these ideas. It is on its face an opposition to any representation of the divine images, and on another it’s a [...]

Empathy. Awareness of feeling. I am open to feeling, so I don’t have to own another persons feeling. They can have what they feel and I can offer my presence. If the person is encumbered by their feelings, they can become free in the same way, by being open to what they feel and open [...]

Desire forms are “emotional” forms, and in my opinion not the same as thought forms. Emotional forms are closer to Plato’s first forms, though there are forms that precede emotion.
Do you all feel satisfied with your level of self expression in your lives? I offer you can be satisfied. Your very being will know when [...]

Have any of you ever had a day when you had no impulse to do anything at all that day? Have any of you had a day where you had no impulse to act?
Are you saying that a day spent doing nothing is a day well spent? Yes, and I’m also saying that when you [...]

The topic is productivity. We tend to be very concerned with productivity, don’t we? Even if you aren’t employed? It’s a convoluted idea, this productivity.
Have any of you spent a day doing literally nothing ever? Everything gets done always, but no one needs to do it. That’s the issue with productivity. As we live our [...]