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Drink deeply from good books

Esteem, Personality, Self identity, the Self, woman - vrouw, eigenheid, persoonlijkheid, voldoening, waardering, zelf inschatting,

 

“Be true to yourself,
help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art,
drink deeply from good books —especially the Bible,
build a shelter against a rainy day,
give thanks for your blessings
and pray for guidance every day.”

John Wooden

 

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Not forgetting to take care of yourself

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Don’t forget to take good care of yourself.
Sometimes you are so busy taking care of others
that you forget that you yourself are also important.
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Life is the Spiritual

Without spirit, there is no life. To live to the fullest, humankind needs the spiritual matter. Spirituality is the food to grow inside and to mature.

Spirituality isn’t merely an aspect of human life but a “strong realisation of the highest self”. It is the tool to evolve and to come in balance with the outer world, whilst realising and existentialating the self.

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Preceding

Spirituality

The Mystical Tales of the 1001 Arabian Nights, Symbols of the Heart of Secrets

No storm can last forever.

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Additional reading

  1. Looking for True Spirituality 1 Intro
  2. Looking for True Spirituality 2 Not restricted to an elite
  3. Looking for True Spirituality 3 Mind of Christ
  4. Looking for True Spirituality 4 Getting to Know the Mind of Christ
  5. Looking for True Spirituality 5 Fruitage of the Spirit
  6. Looking for True Spirituality 6 Spirituality and Prayer
  7. Looking for True Spirituality 7 Preaching of the Good News
  8. Looking for True Spirituality 8 Measuring Up
  9. Being Religious and Spiritual 1 Immateriality and Spiritual experience
  10. Being Religious and Spiritual 2 Religiosity and spiritual life
  11. Being Religious and Spiritual 3 Philosophers, Avicennism and the spiritual
  12. Being Religious and Spiritual 4 Philosophical, religious and spiritual people
  13. Being Religious and Spiritual 5 Gnostic influences
  14. Being Religious and Spiritual 6 Romantici, utopists and transcendentalists
  15. Being Religious and Spiritual 7 Transcendence to become one
  16. Being Religious and Spiritual 8 Spiritual, Mystic and not or well religious
  17. How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
  18. Philosophy hand in hand with spirituality
  19. Points to remember of philosophy versus spirituality and religion
  20. Fruits of the spirit will prevent you from being either inactive or unfruitful
  21. Childish or reasonable ways
  22. How do you define religion?
  23. Where people find meaning in life
  24. Inner feeling, morality and Inter-connection with creation
  25. Are you religious, spiritual, or do you belong to a religion, having a faith or interfaith
  26. I am passionate about the Works of God
  27. An important place for spirituality in my life
  28. The importance of spirituality in my life
  29. Is Spirituality Important for Overall Well-Being?
  30. Self-development, self-control, meditation, beliefs and spirituality
  31. Concerning the Spiritual Body
  32. Today’s thought “Building yourselves up in your most holy faith” (December 20)
  33. Christians, secularism, morals and values
  34. Wisdom Quote #21…..seeking within with Carl Jung!
  35. ….a powerful way to put the universe on notice….
  36. Our Responsibility in corona-times #2 Opportunities for spirituality and reflection

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How important is spirituality in your life?

How important is spirituality? I would ask this question in another way, how important is life? Both are same. Spirituality was always there, is here and will always be there,,, as was our life, we are living life, and will live like that. We are spiritual from the beginning but we are behaving like others and hence it has become all chaos. So if we come back to spirituality again we are there. So the sooner you come, the sooner you become spiritual. Just come and see what is spiritual because you were always spiritual at your deepest level.

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Happy New month of May and International Workers Day!

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    A beautiful poem by David Whyte in honour of International Workers’ Day…

    WORKING TOGETHER
    We shape our self
    to fit this world

    and by the world
    are shaped again.

    The visible
    and the invisible

    working together
    in common cause,

    to produce
    the miraculous.

    I am thinking of the way
    the intangible air

    passed at speed
    round a shaped wing

    easily
    holds our weight.

    So may we, in this life
    trust

    to those elements
    we have yet to see

    or imagine,
    and look for the true

    shape of our own self,
    by forming it well

    to the great
    intangibles about us.

    ~David Whyte
    from The House of Belonging

            Image Credit: Mitra Shahidi.

            Text source: Jamberoo Abbey https://www.facebook.com/1567391160191012/posts/3025497537713693/

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            Self versus Perceived Self

            Obed Chinedu's avatarCritical Digest Room

            For the purpose of introduction, the self is a common concept that is either privately or generally perceived and conceived.

            Talking about private or generic perceptions of self, what is the self?

            Many premises have been laid on this concept. Some view it as a representation of a person. Others see it as intrinsic features that constitute an individual. For this context, the self is a subjective view of a person and their social, religious and political standings.

            Well, that’s by the way.
            Let’s come down to private and public perceptions of self: do people see you the way you see yourself?

            Self and personality are two concepts that hardly correspond to people’s views.

            In consequence, there is usually a floating ego that earns no penny.

            Here are the points:

            1. You are not always who you think you are. You may think you are dedicated to your students or the…

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            …unworthy of a human being who wishes to evolve spiritually.

            We human beings, are only mere creatures in the great masterpiece of the Divine Creator, Who we want to recognise or not. It is up to us to live according to the Creator His commandments or to ignore Him. The way we behave, the choices we make, are going to have a decision in way for our future. It is up to our intellect to choose for the right way. We need the intellect that dwells in our brains, when we wish to accomplish tasks on Earth, inspired by our souls!  So:

            Mind your daily life and the present moment you are living in!

            Every individual in his daily life, his choices shall determine his future. Do not hide for yourself or try to do all the time what others want, because then you shall fall apart.

            Focus on what God wants. When you are on a spiritual path, you must come face-to-face with yourself
            and acknowledge all of who you are. Never forget that

            he shall reap what he sows. This is the infallible Divine Justice that
            acts within the Laws of Creation.

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            By the same blog:

            1. ‘Tis hard for man to rouse his spirit up—
            2. Hope is the clear window that allows light…
            3. Inside beauty is the best source of Light
            4. To thyself be true!
            5. You could have……….BUT…
            6. Sunday reflection . . . . The forces of Love
            7. Sunday reflection . . . Praise the Creator Who has granted you life!
            8. #TenderTuesday . . .Radiate boundless love…
            9. …. if spiritual intuition were in charge.
            10. High recognitions . . . the age of spiritual awakening on Earth…
            11. High recognitions . . . The intellect is just an instrument of our souls.
            12. High recognitions . . . Nature had no secrets…
            13. High recognitions . . . . the future that waits for us
            14. High recognitions . . . Divine Justice is infallible and goes beyond one earthlife.
            15. High recognitions . . . Not even a single hair of a person will be touched if…
            16. High recognitions . . . The Grail Message “In the Light of Truth”
            17. High recognitions . . . Human beings have not taken advantage of their precious, varied lives on Earth
            18. The plain fact…

            purpleraysblog's avatarPurplerays

            To intentionally go through hardship or endure physical pain in exchange for the fulfillment
            of some wish is unworthy of a human being who wishes to evolve spiritually. If a person feels
            in his soul the urge to pledge to his God, then he must commit to striving to improve in
            everything, seeking to keep his inner volition always pure, and also take care of his words,
            thoughts and deeds….

            The person who strives to improve in some way shows humility and goodwill, while one who
            yields himself to suffer pain and deprivation shows unlimited vanity and conceit. The first
            shows respect for the Will of the Almighty, while the latter reveals contempt, supposing, in
            his puerile imagination, to be able to trade with it in some way.

            The Day Without Tomorrow

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            Teenage self advice

            Bishal Dhiraj's avatarDr. Share Guru

            What advice would you give to your teenage self?

            Teenage self advice.

            I can give some general advice that may be useful to a teenage self:

            1. Don’t be afraid to be yourself: It’s important to embrace your true self and not worry too much about what others think of you. You are unique, and that is something to be celebrated.
            2. Focus on your passions: Pursue your interests and passions, whether it’s music, art, science, or sports. You will find fulfillment in doing what you love, and it will help you discover your purpose in life.
            3. Take care of your mental health: Mental health is just as important as physical health. Don’t hesitate to seek help if you are struggling with anxiety, depression, or any other mental health issue.
            4. Learn from your mistakes: Everyone makes mistakes, and that’s okay. What’s important is that you learn from them and use them as…

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            Rest in the knowing of your own Inner Being

            Dutch translation / Nederlandse vertaling: Rust in het weten van je eigen innerlijke wezen

            purpleraysblog's avatarPurplerays

            Rest in the knowing
            of your own Inner Being
            To honour your Self
            is so powerfully freeing

            💛

            Mary Josephine Hession
            Maia Nature Photography & Poetic Light

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            https://www.facebook.com/maryjosephine.hession

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            Being what will give a good admiration in this world

             

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            Be what will give you good admiration in this world.
            Think as if you are a winner
            and that you can complete
            and be inspirationally great!
            ~  unknown

             

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            Love – by Abirami Sethumanickam

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            i look for myself, in you
            as you’re suspended in air
            your first sight 
            your promises of forever
            your blindness
            your difficulty
            
                                             i’m convinced,
                                             you’re the answer
                                             to my fear of hating
                                             and destruction
            
                                                                                        so i fell in love
                                                                                        with the first boy that turned and looked
                                                                                        with the pink that made me a girl
                                                                                        with debates that made me heard
                                                                                        with all the books i could never read
                                                                                        with the english that taunted
                                                                                        with her, and the jokes she made 
            
            
            i wonder 
            why you were so good to me 
            when all i did
            was use you
            as a getaway 
                                      you defined me
                                                                   beyond what this
                                                                   world has assigned for me 
            maybe there’ll come a day
            when you’ll love me less
            and i’ll love more
            

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            Words of a leaving soul

            Jagadeep Rokkam's avatarEnter the world of fantasy.

            The entire universe is hidden in me
            I’m omnipresent.
            Deception becomes the new good in me
            I couldn’t break free from the barriers.
            World will come along with me
            It tried to overpower me,
            I couldn’t understand why and what.
            And the power to stop is not within.
            There would be no world without me,
            Now it is shunning me away.
            It is becoming more savage in here
            Than in wild
            Is it because there’s no one to challenge you?
            Pain arises in little heart
            An unknown agony has it begun?
            Despite the wounds will the hopes in my heart still remain?
            When my heart is breaking into pieces
            One personality is haunting me like the
            HUNDREDS.
            I’ll get rid of dreams,
            I question and I oppose,
            I won’t panic and I won’t get scared
            I’ll keep flying away.
            I smile, I jump
            I won’t be putdown anymore
            Life has…

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            Returning Us to Our True Nature

            Celia Hales's avatarMIRACLES EACH DAY

            “You may not feel that you have ever intended to live in fear. But the displacement of the original intent was so complete that each life has begun with fear and proceeded from this beginning continually reacting fear. While the original intent remained within you and caused you to attempt to express a Self of love despite your fear, fear has thwarted your every effort and caused the very effort that has continued the cycle of fear. To have to try to be who you are and to express who you are is the result of the displacement of the nature of love with the nature of fear. What we now are about is reversing this displacement and returning you to your true nature.” (A Course of Love, T4:3.5)

            We had an “original intent” eons ago, and that was to live in love—not fear. But fear intervened, and nothing has…

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            Being worthy of your dreams

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            If you don’t believe you’re worthy of your dreams,
            you’re definitely not honoring your light.

            If you’re telling yourself
            you’re not attractive or worthy of love,
            you are smashing out that light like a limp candle.

            The light within you
            has a very important job to do on this earth,
            and the only way to complete that job
            is to let that light shine
            and use it to do you work.

            ~ How to Accept Compliments & Be Who You Truly Are by Her After

             

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            Martin Heidegger Quotes

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            Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

            Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

            Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

            The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

            Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

            Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

            If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.

            Martin Heidegger

            Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set…

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            Being cheerful on the outside can help you – and others – feel it on the inside

            Being cheerful on the outside can help you – and others – feel it on the inside

            Cheerfulness can boost your energy levels, even in tough times – as philosophers and writers have long recognised

            The surest sign of wisdom is a constant cheerfulness,” wrote the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne in the 16th century. “Be cheerful,” commands Prospero – arguably the wisest of all of Shakepeare’s characters – in The Tempest. Yet the impact of cheerfulness – and the power it gives us to get through difficult moments in our lives – is hard to define and easy to disregard or dismiss, even as we strive to be happy.

            • Cheerfulness is a psychological and emotional resource
            • Cheerfulness differs from happiness
            • Cheerfulness is not optimism
            • Cheerfulness is also seen as the antidote to melancholy

            Full story here

            In Self and wellbeing Philosophy by Donna Ferguson

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            On Dreaming, a search for knowledge of the self #1

            theburningheart's avatarKone, Krusos, Kronos

            Snorkeling

            “God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man”

            Ibn Arabi

            I wouldn’t even know where to start, this business about dreaming it’s so extensive, let me just say for many years as far back as when I was a child maybe no more than five, or six years of age I was intrigued and interested on dreams, in my natal chart I have a very close conjunction Venus with Mars in Pisces, on the fourth  house, making a trine with Uranus in Cancer on the eight house.

            Antique Planisphere Celeste Zodiac Map

            Another thing that fascinated me at the time was snorkeling, and diving on the Ocean, did quite a lot of it until of course other prosaic but normal occupations took me away from it, like trying to make a living by working, now I realize that dreaming and diving were connected, you dive to…

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            Fragments of myself by Cindy Georgakas

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            fragmentsof myself

            by Cindy Georgakas, Monthly Contributor
            site: https://uniquelyfitblog.com/

            I collectfragmentsof myself
            and place them in my heart,
            Reclaiming lost parts.

            Waiting, longing, hoping
            for a shadow of myself
            To come to life.

            The past evades me,
            the present scares me,
            The future’s faith washes over me.

            I bathe in the salt water,
            an embryo forming into a new sense of self.

            I return again and again and again in many formless forms,
            And float off in free abandonment.

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            Soul-searching

            Callum Featherstone's avatarpoorman'sdreams


            We are all cut from the same cloth

            Black or white. Pauper or posh

            And as those veracious bubbles do froth

            The truth always comes out in the wash.


            Life’s banquet is seared with many decoys

            Blue, well-done, medium and rare

            You can never delect in the delicious joys

            Without first tasting bitter despair.


            It’s always the cruel that bloom and flourish

            It beggars belief how the meek don’t inherit

            We must first plant wisdom and courage

            To stop them reaping from our own merit.


            Because when life is unkind

            And your ducks don’t stay in a row

            Sometimes you have to lose your mind

            To find your soul.


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            Existence in the non-existent and non-existence in the existence

            When wondering about the existence, the why and how, there is the darkness around us in which we look for the light. There we find ourselves in a world that has shifted from the here and now. We, looking at the age that has shifted all emphasis to the here, there, yesterday, today and tomorrow, and thus brought about a demonisation of man and his world.

            The many things that bind us to each other and to this world we want to curse, but they keep us under their spell. Who plays the game? Who has the strings of our body and soul?

            Who is the player of this puppet cabinet, where we are the puppets of who in what world? It was not that we ourselves presented ourselves to be a glove puppet. And who is that One Who plays with the hand puppets of this world?

            In this world, we see many who want to seize power and even manage to make money out of their dictatorial traits.  Then they take pleasure in having flocks of dictators around them, until the people wake up, when it is too late and the phenomenon of dictators has already caused great misery. Then people will have to admit with shame that they have allowed such foolishness to take place and to cause so much damage. Then they will have the nerve to admit that mankind has been robbed of his transcendence by the short-sightedness of the super-intellectuals, but also of the foolish followers who turned a blind eye while the others warned.

            Many have fallen a victim to unconsciousness.

            But then, at last, they come to see, man’s task is the exact opposite: to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

            Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness, nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness.

            What is the sole purpose of human existence? Is it to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being?

            What affects us? What affects him or her who is standing next to us?

            For sure

            the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious. {Carl Jung}

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