When I said it was easier than said, I did mean easier. To give Compassion and Love is easy...once you choose to do it. The choice is the hard part for most people. Why? Because it requires us to accept that their are other paths that are correct, not only our own. KWIM?
Take for example what the conversation between Pap & zarocat. They were equally too concerned with thier own way being the right way, that they did not even consider that each of their individual philosophies are correct because the are right for each of them as individuals. In the end, it seems that they have used compassion to see each where each other are coming from.
As for not seeing that there is not a universal consciousness, please try view it through my eyes.
First, I view the universal conscious as an energy that links us all. I feel connected through my spirit to everything. I really do. The same universal energy that created me also created a new thought in another person's mind. It also created the earth and the animals. We are all created from the same energy. To invalidate someone else, to me, is to invalidate myself. It goes back to Agape (brotherly love) and reaping what you sow.
I believe that universal consciousness does NOT make things happen to us. I believe that the universal consciousness is responding to us. I know this from my own life. When I choose to be serious, that's what the universe gives back to me. When I choose to be compassionate and loving, that's what the universe gives back to me. Yes, sometimes serious things happens in my life. Those events always make me I realize there is something for me to learn about my self and where my responsibility is in that event, which in turn strengthens my own personal connection to the universe.
Am I making sense? These concepts can get lost in translation, when one is describing actions. :think: I guess that's where it lies..."not in the talk, but in the walk". :idea:
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When I said it was easier than said, I did mean easier. To give Compassion and Love is easy...once you choose to do it. The choice is the hard part for most people. Why? Because it requires us to accept that their are other paths that are correct, not only our own. KWIM?
Take for example what the conversation between Pap & zarocat. They were equally too concerned with thier own way being the right way, that they did not even consider that each of their individual philosophies are correct because the are right for each of them as individuals. In the end, it seems that they have used compassion to see each where each other are coming from.
As for not seeing that there is not a universal consciousness, please try view it through my eyes.
First, I view the universal conscious as an energy that links us all. I feel connected through my spirit to everything. I really do. The same universal energy that created me also created a new thought in another person's mind. It also created the earth and the animals. We are all created from the same energy. To invalidate someone else, to me, is to invalidate myself. It goes back to Agape (brotherly love) and reaping what you sow.
I believe that universal consciousness does NOT make things happen to us. I believe that the universal consciousness is responding to us. I know this from my own life. When I choose to be serious, that's what the universe gives back to me. When I choose to be compassionate and loving, that's what the universe gives back to me. Yes, sometimes serious things happens in my life. Those events always make me I realize there is something for me to learn about my self and where my responsibility is in that event, which in turn strengthens my own personal connection to the universe.
Am I making sense? These concepts can get lost in translation, when one is describing actions. :think: I guess that's where it lies..."not in the talk, but in the walk". :idea: