We become accustomed to what has been part of our routine and stability ignoring the fact that in time we have become stagnant, unhappy and unsatisfied. In three words, We Stop Growing. To pretend to live our life in the same manner all the time is not logical. Our daily experiences and challenges transform us into a more developed and whole individual.
Dark nights plunges us into the depths of our being pressing us into exploring what needs to be changed or revealed. For years we have gone along with the social circles and what is expected of us. We learn quickly how to integrate ourselves with the rest of society, which is good, but in the process we forget how not to lose our individuality. Individuality based on our self-knowledge along with well rooted human and spiritual principles are the key to our well being and happiness.
"Speaking of human nature also reminds us that there is a unity and solidarity belonging to the whole human race. For this reason, man is to be considered "in the full truth of his existence, of his personal being and also of his community and social being" excerpt from MAN'S DIGNITY STEMS FROM HIS SPIRITUAL NATURE.
Some people manage to make manifest their individuality sooner than others, like Albert Einstein who at 15 years old realized that he had to make his own way in the world. I believe that's the reason why he was able accomplish so much and benefit society with his own individual development; because he began to live early on, the life destined to him.
It is a shame that most of us spend half our life before we find ourselves before the path we need to decide to walk on. When life becomes unbearable because we have denied our self-realization we often find ourselves at a crossroads, in that moment our whole being screams to be born again.
It's the divine calling us to become who we were meant to be before is too late. It is the awakening from the numbness created by a life full of everyone's goals and dreams but our own. I truly believe that education should be based upon the Liberal Arts, in it our minds are developed to analyze, absorb and integrate our individual human capabilities given to us by God into whatever field our work will contribute and ultimately benefit humanity.
By reading of this blog's title alone...I first thought of the movie 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'... :)
ReplyDeletehave a blessed Sunday!
As well the same to you...
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your blog, although I seem to be one of those screaming inside. This makes a lot of sense as to why. Thank you
ReplyDeletegreat blog jack... i have often wondered if we come into the world with 'blueprint' of who we are destined to be... that we decide before step into our lives what our challenges are to be and what we wish to learn... i truly believe life is like spiritual school. people like einstein and mother theresa have been spiritual students a long time i think..
ReplyDeletei love the last part of this posting about education based upon the needs of humanity.. what a wonderful world it would be if this were so.
This is wonderful and very insightful. This is the point I've been trying to get across to legislatures, psychologists, and others. The "No Child Left Behind" curriculum started here in Texas when Bush was governor and I haven't seen anything produced but robots for factories.
ReplyDeleteOur life experiences shape our options and desires. What was a "for sure" idea in our 20s can be vastly different from what we really want in our 40s. The key is to have the courage and faith to step out and strive for what we really want for our lives. I made a drastic career change when I was 38, quit my job, went to school full time,and lived poorly on student loans for 2 years getting my master's degree. I haven't regretted a minute of it since. I'm living the dream. It is doable if you want it badly enough.
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ReplyDeleteThe picture is from a very endearing friend of mine that emailed this photo some two years ago.
ReplyDeleteThere is some significance with the picture and why I used it. Only that person would know. I truly believe that each person does have that opportunity regardless of age or anything to move forward in life in the ways and means in which they desire. However all too often we do hold off on some things for various reasons, but the thought with this post is that there is various means that we do achieve things while at the same time accepting them. That definitely not a negative attitude it's a positive outlook that each and ever living human being can have in on this Earth in their own manner.
It's not in what I wrote it's in what you believe. This is all with regards to being simply human. Each person has the capacity to do what they wish to do in there own manner in life. I am not preaching, I just wrote it last night and thought it may be of some worth. As it's the way in which I live my life, but by all means I am not perfect - I am human and aren't we all?
Your welcome and your human...
ReplyDeleteJen if one can think it in there own way one can do it with some realistic measure. I think we come into life with a blueprint of destiny, but as well I believe we can amend it to some extent. That is the philosophy of abundance. What can be is only something that you know. As like myself, or any other person.
ReplyDeleteCal in life sometimes things are not fair but we try. Within the effort of trying one can rest well and at ease each night knowing that they have done there best within that given day.
ReplyDeleteLyn they do, yet one can reshape things with cadence and when they think outside of the box, then that is when I think we can do things which we wish to do. Everyone is different but we can't go back in time, we can reflect - but we can only go forward as nothing in life stays exactly the same. There is always a variable of change that is taking place. You said it like it is, IF ONE DOES WANT IT BAD ENOUGH...yet that comes along with alliances that in life and being liberal here - online we find a validation that gives us the cofidence to follow through. Kudos to you...
ReplyDeleteThank you, and the one thing I recall is in having no expecations, but I am not driven by expectations as I know many online just pass on by. However there is some cathardic when I wrote this last night as it's usually been the manner that I have wrote in the past and well - thank you. I could say much more but your a very decent person. Thank you for the one writing that you allowed me earlier to add within one of my writes.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the wonderful words of wisdom. I've been a little disoriented the past few days and feel like I'm on spiritual hold. Not that it's completely dead, but lying dormant or perhaps resting, it seems. It's nice to find someone imparting wisdom at times like these.
ReplyDeleteI keep trying to press on, but it's more difficult at times like these. I can feel that it's just temporary and perhaps has a purpose, but it came at a very bad time for me. I'm trying not to let it get me disheartened.
BTW, I started reading books on Einstein in 6th grade and found them to be quite instrumental in my philosophy regarding life, miracles, and the universe.
ReplyDeleteKudos to you Cal...
ReplyDeleteI spent a life-time contorting myself into a box, only to realise years later that I was better off out of it. It makes for a more lonelier road but at least a wider path.
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ReplyDeleteYou are never alone. And at the same time if you can not hear the audio I wish to say that you are unique in your own way, I have had my areas of life that have had there ups and downs and regardless of all things within what we do within our lives there is one thing to consider is that never are you alone.
ReplyDeleteYes. Well said. It is far too easy to live our lives by the expectations of others. I'm not so sure we are pre-programmed to a certain destiny... I am more inclined to accept that we are expected to seek our destinies. I do believe that God has a plan, and that he weaves every thread of our experiences into the tapestry of our lives; even the mis-steps and wrongly taken roads lead to the eventuality that we reach. That, for me is part of the beauty of it all. I've seen many places - impossible to live in all of them, but I have taken a part of them all away with me, each living inside influencing the design of my home. God is too gracious to manipulate us, far too giving. We must learn to dream and never quit our pursuit of them. When we accept our right to chase our dreams, we change the expectations of those who try to dictate for us our destinies, whether or not thy appreciate who we've become. In the earliest stages of my search I learned to be honest, in these latter times I've learned the price of honesty. My goal above all is a pure heart... help me, oh Most High.
ReplyDeleteAh..., dishonesty is a cardinal sin. It's impossible to have an intelligent conversation with someone who isn't telling the truth. It muddles the outcome of any given situation that would otherwise come naturally to men(ladies too) ---decision making and problem solving. My dad told me to "never confess". You would have to know my dad to understand what he meant, and it took me years to understand he wasn't talking about not owning up to your mistakes.
ReplyDeleteHonesty is practiced judiciously. Honesty takes courage. Dishonesty is always a bad idea, and in the event that offering honesty (sometimes mistaken for frankness) will cause injury, then err on the side of silence.
Very true. Thank you where are you from may I ask?
ReplyDeleteHe is from Tejas, by way of Louisiana.
ReplyDeleteHello, lil' bro.
Seems like a very smart man...
ReplyDeleteI taught him well. Not really. He's his own man.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of age we all do have something from which we all have our own areas which are vast and smart, each one of us never learns nor comes into our own without the assistance of other within life itself.
ReplyDeleteCharles there are very few that I have on here that are not in some manner rich in what they do and say. I mean in a collaborative manner.
I can certainly see that you enjoy all who participate here..
ReplyDeleteCharlie I get to them as well...I really do. I don't want 100 people on my blog but I literally know some as well as I have come to know many that are new. In times that people are all over the Internet with more than one blog, I choose one here, and it's a share. I am waiting to see if all comes about within my work - then I wont have, as much time probably - we shall see.
ReplyDeleteI guess what I am saying is that I don't take the people that are on my blog for granted as I do finesse writing or reading theirs as well. But there is some manner that one can do something. And I don't sit here constantly writing, I step away and come back and it's the most interesting thing that I have found. When I first started it and still to this day I searched for a few and then it all came about. But I do enjoy it, I think many do in there own way. I wish we all were on the same time zones!
In the last month I have been more than twice to everyone's blog.
Good for you, a real e-traveler.
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