05-02-2016, 11:02 PM
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(05-02-2016, 09:37 PM)Night Owl Wrote: Quo even said this world isn't meant to be changed, it is meant to be understood and loved for what it is.
Is Quo saying that Life on planet Earth is perfect just the way it is? Joseph Campbell teaches something similar. Joseph Campbell says that the whole vegetable and insect cycle of life and death matches the pattern of the revolutions of planet Earth around our life sustaining star, season after season:
- spring-summer-fall
- birth-life-death
If you have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world. If you can read this forum post, then you are more fortunate than the 3 billion people in the world who cannot read it at all. In this context, all of us on this message board live like kings and queens.
Happiness comes easy to us. Now is our opportunity to share our prosperity with as many people as possible. If my outer world were a perfect reflection of my truly blissful and prosperous inner world, then why must half of us still be illiterate? You can’t just stick your head in the sand and pretend like famine and lack of access to clean drinking water doesn’t exist just because my inner world is flourishing or that I’m happy on the inside. We have to be honest with ourselves. Eliminating the leading causes of dire poverty such as measles, malaria and diarrhea is a very realistic goal. Bill Gates with the UN have made remarkable strides recently in this regard.
Quote:What you experience outside of you is a direct reflection of what you experience inside of you. Then if you experience a lot of struggle from the outer world it means you experience it inside too.
My peers are in a self proclaimed “class-struggle”. The work we do is hard on us physically and spiritually. I have the scars to prove it. Yes, Night Owl, you are very much right that anti-capitalist studies can be a real drag or drain on the student's soul energy and vitality. But what distinguishes my perspective from my peers is precisely what you propose: to help yourself first by achieving maximum Union with the One Infinite Creator and summoning the energy from within as a shimmering point radiating a burning fire of Love and harmony, and then overflowing said energy to share with as many other people as possible. That’s something I get which my peers do not. T’is the purpose of my Ministry - - to remind my peers of who they really are as beings of Radiant Light and by providing a different path for them to become stronger caregivers and more effective spiritual warriors of economic justice.
But then again, is it even really necessary for me to remind my peers of who they really are? After all, as Quo put it, we are all perfect just the way we are, depression and self-imposed traumas included? Is it even really necessary at all for me to share my esoteric Law of One-inspired wisdom through my Ministry?