08-15-2021, 11:11 AM
(08-15-2021, 10:32 AM)Ohr Ein Sof Wrote: Oh yes, and to add to the quote that you posted, there is nothing more important than knowing thyself and each can know thyself through the exploration of our personal experiences that are attracted to us. This is the hallmar of the self-aware entity. This is how I have understood it to be. Do you agree or disgree?
True, all external information can at most be pointers as I see it. Such information can be useful to guide oneself and the information can also lead to false tangents. And about attracting information, that's an interesting observation. It could be that as we develop ourselves we will be able to attract more of the information useful as a guiding tool. And I also find external information useful to prevent oneself from being trapped within a limited belief system. For example if I only learned from secular mainstream sources, that would block the spiritual potential. And even with spiritual information, if I only learned from one spiritual perspective that can easily be a too limited perspective. But yes, ultimately one needs to have direct personal spiritual realization for it to become real for oneself.