Spirituality

[soma]

In our endeavor to understand life we experiment externally, which is science in order to understand the laws of life internally, which is spirituality. As we see the universal laws unfold and how they apply to our mind, we understand our relationship to the whole. By being good we find out what makes us happy and by being bad we find sadness, therefore to be content and happy we must find the best way to live. To live a good life we must deliver an unconscious pattern into a conscious system, which is what spirituality does for us. It is just as important to understand our internal self, as it is to understand the external self in order to be healthy and happy. We need to learn to watch the inner reactions of the mind, the same way we observe events in the outer world for self-preservation; consequently, our mind becomes aware of itself.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

To live a good life we must deliver an unconscious pattern into a conscious system, which is what spirituality does for us.

I think those unconscious patterns are the real key. We are trained in faulty ways during our upbringing, and our unconscious takes on all sorts of wacky connections. When those connections fire at things our conscious mind is aware of, it can make us behave wrongly.

It is just as important to understand our internal self, as it is to understand the external self in order to be healthy and happy. We need to learn to watch the inner reactions of the mind, the same way we observe events in the outer world for self-preservation; consequently, our mind becomes aware of itself.

I think of the internal self as the “true” self, made in the image of God, and the external self the “false self” which is made up of an emotional infrastructure based on all those problems I mentioned early. I look at the “false self” as the bushel over the lamp, as it were – keeping people from seeing God in you unless they can see through your external self. If our external self loses important and power, it can get out of the way so others can see our inner light.

Am I on the right track here for what you meant?

Alan

 

[soma]

Alan, yes. Thank you for saying it so clearly. Soma

I feel as we surrender our ignorance, doubts and fears to the higher layers of the mind, we get an enlarged concept of good that is then able to take us to a new and wonderful meaning. When our thinking expands, our lives take on the anticipation of a fuller, more vigorous and joyous life. Like the sun, as we expand towards it, it casts the shadows of our negativity behind us.