Posted by Diane So where does this come from. In our lives, to have become what we When we each make choices in life we obviously make what we consider Essentially what I am saying is that we are naturally attached to A lot of this comes from our attachment to spirituality. Yes you As I mentioned earlier I believe that we are all unique, we all As for me I am working hard at trying not to apply my beliefs of I have my uniqueness, and that is what makes certain things resonate
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are, we have made many choices. These vary from personal spiritual
choices (what we do and don't believe), to choices in the way we
live our lives. We of course like to think that we have made
the 'right' choices, that we haven't made mistakes. In that desire
to feel we have taken the right path often then comes an attachment
to those choices and sometimes even a feeling of threat from people
that have made different choices. We think - "Why didn't they choose
what I chose? Why have they rejected what I have accepted? Do they
think that I am making a mistake? Do they think that I am on the
wrong path?"
the 'best' choice. We are each clearly trying to forge our own best
path. This is the nature of our reality; to use our freewill to
discern a path for ourselves. Many of these choices are deeply
personal. Many of these choices are hard to make. With so much
energy going into this process it is only to be expected that we
feel attached to these choices. They are bets that we make, and we
want to know if the outcome will pay-off in the way that we hope.
Will our expectations be fulfilled?
the choices that we make for ourselves, and what we are attached to
we value, and value is a currency. So when we interact with others
and assess their beliefs in relation to our own, we are determining
how much currency they have, how much to value them. The scary
result is that those that are like us score highly and we interact
joyfully with them, and those that are different from us score low
and we tend to walk away from them. This leads us to be constantly
in a process of reaffirming our own beliefs and sheltering us from
different viewpoints. This is surely not a good set-up for expanding
our understanding. We fall into our beliefs becoming a heavily
trodden line, a rut that we can not easily step out of to embrace
new ideas; worse than that we cut ourselves off from having a wide
understanding/perspective. You do not need to believe everything you
hear, but I think it is wise to at least try to understand why the
people that believe different things from you believe as they do.
And I mean really understand, not just fall into the easy conclusion
that they are just less evolved!
heard me right! I imagine that each of you reading this has made a
strong commitment to spirituality. It is one of your deepest life
choices. As such we have, as a group and individually, attached huge
value to spirituality. The scale of evolved-unevolved includes all
things, how evolved are you at: baking an apple pie, understanding
quantum physics, building a house, raising children, artistic
expression, computer programming, public speaking, flying a plane,
etc. As community we tend to forget these other things, we are so
focused on spirituality that we have inadvertently limited
the 'evolved-unevolved' polarity to only contain it. We see it as
the 'true' measure.
contain uniqueness. Coming to this understanding for me, more than
anything has helped me on the path of releasing me from the evolved-
unevolved polarity. Within the polarity we are seemingly a path of
people from one end 'unevolved' marching their way forwards trying
to get to 'evolved'. In many ways it is seen that those further
ahead know more than those below them. This is essentially saying
that all the people below you (on this illusionary scale) are a sub-
set of you. You are all of them, plus more. You have nothing to
learn from them, and they need to learn more in order to reach the
point that you are at. In this we miss the point that the first of
us to levitate may only just be catching up with the woman in
Finland who through years of practice has learnt to make the
most 'perfect' apple pie that you will ever taste! In reality
though, there is no 'catching up', because we all perfect, perfect
at one thing, in each and every moment we are perfect at being our
Self.
what is important to me on to others. I do seek to further define my
own beliefs, but in seeking that definition I will try not to be so
attached to needing the reassurance that it is the 'right' choice.
It just is. I will try not to be threatened by those who believe
differently from me. I will not devalue myself when I meet someone
that I perceive as 'advanced'. I will try to move beyond falling
into the game of trying to show others I am spiritually evolved.
with me. I will seek to open myself to other viewpoints, and not
judge people whose viewpoints are contrary to mine. I do not need to
believe what they do, but I do need to accept that it is perfect in
each moment for them to believe as they do. They are no more right
or wrong than me, for we are each trying to solve a unique dilemma.
They are the evolving answer to their question and I am the evolving
answer to mine.
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