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Nightside Eclipse
2009-01-08, 16:50
Earth is quite the messy place, and theres many ways to do good and bad.

How would one grow spiritually? It seems quite ambiguous. Each day I try to do something good, or help someone-- but is this growing spiritually? Is there any other ways?

Conditional love?
Using less stuff?
...etc


I'm trying to grow myself better. Best to start (or continue) now I guess... it would be better than wasting a life-time doing nothing (or close to) important , when one could be utilizing his/her time effectively!
Also, if one of you will say 'love', can you define it more? Is it unconditional love? etc

dummy
2009-01-08, 23:02
http://www.shroomery.org/attachments/6584522-EckhartTolle-ThePowerOfNow.pdf

Dream of the iris
2009-01-09, 04:08
I would say that book out of any other really helped me grow spiritually. Thanks for the PDF, I let my friend have my copy (well, he paid for it :p )

dummy
2009-01-10, 21:35
it's a great book, you're welcome

Rizzo in a box
2009-01-11, 07:33
Work on yourself.

Nightside Eclipse
2009-01-12, 01:17
Work on yourself.

Fundamentally, how?

Just some examples would suffice :)

Dream of the iris
2009-01-13, 20:17
Watch yourself. Watch what it is you do, what it is you think, how you are around people, by yourself, your fears, your desires, etc. Watch everything and see. Learn from everything as "all are lessons". Everything can teach you something if you want to learn. Even a boring day at work can teach you something if you were paying attention.

You can recite mantras, meditate for hours, pray to whatever god suites your fancy, but those things mean nothing if you can't watch yourself and learn.

ArmsMerchant
2009-01-13, 20:35
Fundamentally, how?

Just some examples would suffice :)

Accept everything.

Judge nothing.

Bless everyone.

Pay attention.

BTW, the best short definition of love I've seen comes from the Huna--"to love is to be happy with."

kurdt318
2009-01-13, 22:40
Who are you?

Are you your name? Are you your everyday actions? Are you the clothes you wear? Are you the knowledge you have acquired? Are you the morals and beliefs you hold dear?

I'm guessing if you really thought about it, you'd find you're not any of those things.

Long after I am dead and gone, and no longer able to fulfill the title, body, and ego of "kurdt318", what will I be then? Or to be specific, what have I always been, regardless of birth, life, and death?
Accept everything.

Believe it or not, summed up in these two words, is the most enlightening information ever:

1. All moments lead up to right here and right now. What is happening is happening for a reason, BUT that doesn't mean you have to be a slave to it. ACCEPT the present.

2. Every pursuit in life, is really the pursuit of happiness. Stop basing your happiness on anything other than the "essential self". ACCEPT your true self.