Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Friday, November 25, 2011

How an Spiritual Guide Can Help Find Yourself

By Wayne Stanford


To develop in spiritualism in a world defined by power, money, and influence is a immense task. Modern distractions like 9-hour workdays and bills, we have bond our focus mostly to material things. As a result, our concepts of self-worth and meaning are misplaced these days in society. How can we achieve a balance in this day and age? However, you can go online these days and find out through the use of a spiritual guide or connect with one of the many spiritual communities. Nevertheless, before that, let us reflect on ourselves.

Looking inside yourself goes beyond recalling the things that happened in a day, week, or month. You need to look closely and reflect on your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and motivations. Periodically examining your experiences, the decisions you decide on , strengthening relationships with friends and loved ones, and also conversing with an online spiritual guide can help. Here are several pointers when you are searching for yourself: be objective, be forgiving of yourself, and lock on your areas for advancement.

When it comes to spiritualism and people like yourself, religion and science have differing views on matters of the human spirit. Established religion views people as spiritual beings temporarily existing on this world, while science views the spirit as just one dimensional plane of an individual. Mastery of the self is a continual theme in both Western and Eastern teachings. The needs of the body are recognized but placed under the inner needs. Beliefs, values, morality, rules, experiences, and good work provide the draft to secure the growth of oneself.

Whether we judge that life's meaning is predetermined or self-directed, to grow in spiritualism is to realize that we do not merely live. We do not know the full meaning of our lives at birth; but we gain knowledge and wisdom from our interactions with people and from our actions and reactions to the situations we are in. As we get to know more about this meaning, there are sure beliefs and values that we reject and affirm. Our lives have purpose. This purpose puts all our physical, emotional, and intellectual potentials into use; sustains us during trying times; and gives us something to look forward to---a goal to reach, a destination to reach. A lone individual without purpose or meaning is like a drifting boat at sea.

If you still feel like you need more to find yourself, go online and find it. There are plenty of resources out there that can help you achieve your goals of discovering yourself. A start would be to seek out others with the same goal. A suggested move would be that of joining online spiritual communities or forums for discussions on the matter.




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