Spirituality in Action
It seems to me that if our spiritual or religious practices help us to act more constructively and creatively on the job, with our families, and in our lives generally, then that's a good sign that our practices aren't self-serving in a narcissistic or self-indulgent sense.
The imperative of every finite thing is to contribute to the creation of a world greater than the one it knows.
Hell is what you’ve left undone.
Lift up your life and love with it.
If you solve the problem of living then the problem of dying takes care of itself.
Posted by Paul at 10:36 AM Permalink
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Hell is what you’ve left undone. Be someone who really lived, whose life held a gladness and meaning that was present to the rest of us while you were here. Like the sea and the stars, like the surprise of life itself, let us see that you were up to something, and that those who knew you knew it. Only be here while you are here. The greater world will take it from there.
This is really uplifiting for me ..thank you
Nasra
I've been so out straight with other things lately that I was looking for something pre-written that I could just copy and paste! The lazy blogger, lol -
What I'd really like to do is, as I get closer to having the book available, see if I can start orienting the subject matter here on the blog more to what's in the book. So I've been mulling over ideas on that and hope to come up with something in the next month or two...
Keshi.
Really good question. That short sentence doesn't do anything to explain itself.
You could say that Original Faith is about moving from a sense of who we are that is in large part ego-based to one that's centered mainly on faith-full love.
Once we get on track with that, there are further changes that include a change in how we experience faith. That's what I'm alluding to there, but too much to elaborate in a comments thread.
KESHI and DON, thank you -
You can reach a place where your primary identity is no longer with yourself. When that happens, your perspective on personal mortality shifts. This may sound really strange, but I think it's about as good as I can do to suggest it.
It was a painfully honest account of how the Abrahamic monotheists are willing to take us all down with them on the road to glory.
I am well aware that Spirituality and Organized Religion are lightyears apart but in theory they should be one and the same...shouldn't they?
"Spirituality" and "religion" have a lot of connotations. Among those, the former seems to get more at individual experience; the latter at social organization and structure.
It seems to me that most of the creative energy comes at the level of the individual, just as in other areas. For example, artists and scientists have organizations, but meetings don't tend to produce the art or science they're discussing.
In any case, as things stand now, organized religion as a whole is obviously far from having its act completely together - a little too much by way of vitriol, violence, and scandal. It also has plently of good and sincere people involved. But guess I'd have to say that overall, religion needs to become a lot more spiritual.
I'm going to remember this quote...
lift up your life and love with it!
Ahhhh ...
Jen
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