Humility is a virtue only so far as it promotes proper perspective. We must not place an obsession with controlling ego before the principles that controlling our ego is supposed to serve. To claim wisdom requires a modicum of hubris. To believe that yes we can understand, at least in part.
Now regrettably, it’s like braham is sleeping. The human part of god is sleeping and tossing fitfully. Maybe is a bit drugged, considering the preponderance of that. Will the human spirit fall out of bed?
“Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life.” John J. Emerick
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If you’re new here, seek and you will find…and subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The subject is the impact of perspective on spiritual life. Some see it as merely a tendency for distortion. They think we don’t see clearly because of our ego putting an overlay on spiritual experience. I would say individual experience [...]
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in Perspective | Leave Insight
You never perceive reality directly with your senses. It isn’t how it works. And how and what you perceive is determined by your focus, often subconsciously according to conditioning. If you can see what you don’t see, then your perspective isn’t a trap, it’s an incarnation.
Many schools speak of a mental body, in one terminology [...]
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in Perspective | Leave Insight
How can we trust our senses when they are so limited? Yet people do. But in fact there is something that makes you trust your senses and lies underneath the senses. Experience? No. That comes after and often leads to some cloudy thinking. The lack of alternatives? Also I wouldn’t characterize it that way. Emotions? [...]
September 10th, 2008 | Posted in Perspective | Leave Insight
Can our mind be a key to the physical world? Would you be able to change the outcome of physical objects? In fact yes, to a degree. The exception to that rule is that you aren’t the only mind. There isn’t just your will. There is everyone, so it results in a consensus. We create [...]
September 10th, 2008 | Posted in Perspective | Leave Insight
Why do we want to label our existence? The only truth at this moment is ‘I can’t say I am not. I AM that I am.’ To refuse labels is to label labels. Active opposition is service to the force you deride. Every moment is a new observation. In any moment a new insight can [...]
January 8th, 2009 | Posted in Perspective | Leave Insight