Welcome to my blog! I hope to share thoughts on my study of life, happiness, spirituality, and human behavior with you. This is a great way for me to reflect on life as well as a way to gather feedback from others.
I am in the midst of plowing through a curriculum on spirituality and the power of thought. No doubt, much of what I enter will pertain to those studies.
Good timing for these studies — as Oprah is sharing a 10-week webinar with author Eckhart Tolle, to review his book, “A New Earth.” Fascinating book! It gets you to see life and spirituality in a whole new way. Even readings from the Bible are taking on a new and deeper meaning for me. Last week I attended a funeral mass for my colleague’s father. The priest shared the gospel reading John 12:24-25 “Most truly I say to you: Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains just one grain, but if it dies, it then bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.” In referring to my spiritual reading, I believe Christ was telling us to let our ego die – so that our inner being, our consciousness, can live. It is so difficult to let the ego die, it is so strong — and our society encourages it to flourish. Yet, in order to find real peace, we must detach.
I wonder what tests life will throw my way this week. And will I step up to the challenge, or let my ego dictate a reaction?
Very nice first blog. I think God (and when I say “God”, I don’t mean as an example the Christian God or Budda God, etc., but mean the spiritual God who watches over all living being regardless of religious faith), presents us with many tests each and every day of our lives. That is how we grow and learn. That is what shapes our self consciousness. Those tests are shaped by self determination. Some of those tests are simple and others are very hard. Regardless, I believe that God will not throw a test at us that we can’t pass. It is our own self determination that gives us the ability to manage to the “right” outcome. Self determination is what makes us human. Sometimes we pass with flying colors. Other times we think we fail. But do you ever think that maybe failing is the “right” outcome at the time.? These so called failures may shape our self consciousness as much as the successes. View each and every test God gives you with positiveness and it will be so.
By: Jim on March 17, 2008
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