There wouldn't be much going up here lately if I tried to rely on my own words, or tried to write so that others would like what is here. So today, two reminders to self:
First I can do whatever I want to do. My blog.
Second, knowing that I get really bound up sometimes and fail to make the very best most loving decisions, something I need to remind myself, not just for times when I have feelings of disappointment, or loss and despair, but also when life is good:
Whether victim or a master ~ my ego is just that, and who I truly am, ... Reality is amazingly different.
First I can do whatever I want to do. My blog.
Second, knowing that I get really bound up sometimes and fail to make the very best most loving decisions, something I need to remind myself, not just for times when I have feelings of disappointment, or loss and despair, but also when life is good:
Whether victim or a master ~ my ego is just that, and who I truly am, ... Reality is amazingly different.
You are creatures of Light.
From light you have come,
From light you have come,
to light you shall go,
and surrounding you through every step
is the light of your infinite being.
By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created.
What you hold in your heart shall be true,
and what most you admire
that shall you become.
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You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room to another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song to sing.
(from One, by Richard Bach)
That post is complete in itself, without comment. Yet comment I will....Wonderful, moving words.
ReplyDeleteThank you Tom.
DeleteHi Halle
ReplyDeleteSome interesting and inspiring extracts from Bach who I gather is an author who has a philosophy which might loosely be aligned to pantheism as in the universal idea of a GOD of love, in the knowledge one always has the freedom to adopt a more fulsome spiritual life. Not that would mean life is a bed of roses, more I think as to how we relate to our fate and in the choices in our responses. So I guess your post provide spark in moving words as Tom has said.
Best wishes
It has always seemed to me that reality should be simple Lindsay. Others may need to add pantheons or motives. That is part of the choice we make as humans and it seems to me to be part of the ego struggle.
DeleteAll the best to you as always.
Mmm...not sure I agree with any of it Halle. This is my initial and immediate thought and though I try to make sense of what is written I fail. Perhaps I look from a different perspective. In the words of Scripture, 'Meaningless, all is meaningless'
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I do appreciate that you would try to find meaning here Shirley.
DeleteI'm sure it is of little comfort when I tell you that I feel the same way when confronted with all the complexity of Christianity. Truly meaningless for the most part.
Some I recognize.
"You shall love you neighbor as yourself"
I wish the whole world could learn that one and consider everyone without exception to be their neighbor.
Loving God might be an easy one then and we would have two commandments taken care of nicely.
xx Halle
Oh I don't consider Christianity meaningless in any shape or form. No, that isn't what I meant. I was referring to the way we are portrayed by Richard Bach. One of my favourite books is Ecclesiastes for is speaks about life as it is. All we can ever do is enjoy life, our work, whilst we may and love our creator God with all our being. We will get to know the real meaning of it all after we depart this world. Everything in life does seem meaningless and futile knowing that it all passes away one day.
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As with many aspects of the spirit, language is limited. Your last sentence is the one my own spirituality rejects. I'm thoroughly convinced that in spite of appearances, what we do has meaning and lasts. We are connected Shirley, everyone and everything is connected in the spirit in a very real way. Whatever language we use to describe the spirit, it is the eternal and meaningful part of life in all its form.
DeleteYes we are spirit, we are spirit beings inside mortal frames. We are not however all connected to everything and everybody else. We are all created by the same God is all. In the same way angels were created by God and they are not connected to each other either when once they were, Yes we interact with each other in the flesh but not necessarily in spirit. I have found that I now 'see' people in the spirit, see them as spirit beings within a body when once I did not. That is I think solely due to the fact that I became a Christian. Some people I have met I have connected with in the spirit. Beneath the earthly existence we each 'knew' the other as it were without words being spoken. Those incidences have been very rare though. I would like to think that everyone is connected in spirit but I don't think we are.
DeleteJust my point of view
Shirley Anne x
My choice is to believe that the mortal flesh is the illusion, and the spirit and the connection with God, Light as Bach calls it, is real. If that is so, then these interactions in the flesh are reflections, and pale ones, of the real interaction at the level of spirit. If that is so, then the feelings of love and tender care we 'develop' for one another are also a pale reflection of that eternal love that is its source.
DeleteAs you wrote, "We will get to know the real meaning of it all after we depart this world.
Hi Halle
ReplyDeleteIt is true Christianity is overly complicated because of our ego and the human need to want to exercise control over the masses. But I am sure you are also aware paradoxically it is often the case in the study of that complexity we can get an inkling of the simple ancient message of the writer. Ecclesiastes, thought to have been written by Solomon in his youth, is part of the wisdom tradition and who’s primacy of purpose as far as I can gather, (just as is also evident in the words of the patriarchs and Moses) was to arrest the world engrossed in simply “matter”, or in the physical world so to speak and to put forward the idea of the awakened heart shaped in a contemplative approach free from the hindrances of that physical and political world. Not too dissimilar to what you, or the author is suggesting, as Bach wants us to all fly like birds in a spiritual world. Solomon was confronting the worldly sceptics at the time and advanced the argument human intellect was constrained, hence the rather colourful phrases were included such as vanity of vanities, all is vanity, meaningless, meaningless and so forth.
Best wishes
Poor Solomon. Trying to convey something sublime to people used to appeasing an angry god with blood sacrifice.
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