05-30-2014, 03:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-30-2014, 04:11 PM by Astrodiana.)
Hello Simon! I found your post very interesting. To me, the tragic suffering and death of your beloved Grandmother served as a catalyst. You were given a very firm foundation in your faith by your upbringing and the catalyst ~ what you saw as a terrible fate for your very loving and devout grandmother ~ may have been meant to help you think past your early conditioning and to begin to explore what to think and believe next. You tried the atheism and now you are moving forward into new realms of thought and belief. There is no right or wrong..there is only the path that each of us treads, which brings us to our next plateau. We have free will to explore what's out there, to look at each avenue and to decide whether each new thing we discover makes sense to us. We decide at every juncture whether we want to leave the last thing we learned behind or if we want to incorporate the new knowledge into our thought system. I'll bet that you have far to go before you find yourself with a full belief system..but each step along the way is important to each of us. this is how we evolve.
to my understanding...the idea behind "balancing" seems to be that we accept all catalyst as something to be thankful for, which is not an easy task, when we as humans are in the middle of something we would call a catastrophe or dealing with a hate filled person. We need to learn to look upon all with Love and to learn to accept with Love, even those who have wronged us or hurt us in some way. We need to love the circumstances and people who have made our lives miserable and reply with Love and acceptance. This is the true meaning of Love! It's easy to love something which we perceive as good or loveable, such as a puppy. But I believe Mother Theresa was practiced this very well when she ministered to the poor and sick people of the streets. She said that when she cleaned the maggots out of the wounds of homeless people, she saw "Jesus" in them. I feel that Mother Theresa is a good example of the embodiment of Love. I think that when we achieve balance, it means we can forgive and love even those (negative) people and situations who have put difficult problems in our way. I have come a long way in achieving balance in the past few months and I can tell you that when you get there, you know it! that doesn't mean that it is not sometimes an ongoing trait that I need to keep working on, but it is something we need to master in order to progress. I am very much like Carla who came into the world with so much love for everyone, and with time, finally had to learn to find some boundaries and filter my indiscriminate giving of Love. I still falter with that and can border on martyrdom still. anyway...this is my understanding of "balance". A wise healer I know always says "Do not get caught up in the dramas and traumas". I am finally learning the full meaning of that statement. We are all connected, Simon.
to my understanding...the idea behind "balancing" seems to be that we accept all catalyst as something to be thankful for, which is not an easy task, when we as humans are in the middle of something we would call a catastrophe or dealing with a hate filled person. We need to learn to look upon all with Love and to learn to accept with Love, even those who have wronged us or hurt us in some way. We need to love the circumstances and people who have made our lives miserable and reply with Love and acceptance. This is the true meaning of Love! It's easy to love something which we perceive as good or loveable, such as a puppy. But I believe Mother Theresa was practiced this very well when she ministered to the poor and sick people of the streets. She said that when she cleaned the maggots out of the wounds of homeless people, she saw "Jesus" in them. I feel that Mother Theresa is a good example of the embodiment of Love. I think that when we achieve balance, it means we can forgive and love even those (negative) people and situations who have put difficult problems in our way. I have come a long way in achieving balance in the past few months and I can tell you that when you get there, you know it! that doesn't mean that it is not sometimes an ongoing trait that I need to keep working on, but it is something we need to master in order to progress. I am very much like Carla who came into the world with so much love for everyone, and with time, finally had to learn to find some boundaries and filter my indiscriminate giving of Love. I still falter with that and can border on martyrdom still. anyway...this is my understanding of "balance". A wise healer I know always says "Do not get caught up in the dramas and traumas". I am finally learning the full meaning of that statement. We are all connected, Simon.