silentcyclist3 said:Hmm, looks like I’m being a bit clumsy with my words... maybe.🙂
I’ll say it again. A person should just try to do what's best for themselves and everyone else. I guess that means being active, or maybe... just staying still. It's all part of it.
Awareness regarding how balance is maintained through creation and destruction... I guess it involves understanding. And maybe that understanding itself is peace.
If you ever find yourself wondering why bother doing anything at all when you know the whole thing is destined to fail—simply because that destructive side of balance exists—then I guess my take would be this:
By acting for the greater good, a person builds, frees, cleanses, and strengthens their connection to the "pure spirit." I guess that means there is always a necessity to act, or perhaps, to refrain from acting.
When, what, and how much we should—or shouldn't—do... I guess that all comes down to the framework we operate within. It’s mostly determined by those factors I mentioned earlier, I suppose.
In short, we just do what we can. The rest... I guess we just leave it to the forces beyond our control.
Balance, and who knows what else. If I actually knew the answer to that question, I guess I’d be communicating with you through dreams instead.
Imagination can take you anywhere, I guess. Or nowhere at all. 😉
Everyone has their own sphere of influence. I guess no one is ever just one thing.
A virus is essentially a disease—a form of destruction. I guess that's just its purpose, given what it is.
But he also finds survival and balance within his own world, I guess.
True peace is peace. It’s different from that surface-level calm because it’s absolute. I guess.
Yeah, that's just the fallout from how things went down...🙂
Today’s concept of tolerance... I guess it mostly just reflects how much we've convinced ourselves that we're somehow more valuable than everyone else.
I use the word "probably" to add a bit of humanity to my statements. I guess nobody needs another self-proclaimed saint walking around this earth, acting like they have all the answers. 😉
If a person creates in the direction of the "greater good," then they are building—strengthening, let's call it—a sort of spirit of unity. Is that what you mean by "pure spirit"? It feels like a matter of terminology to me; when you say it is "always necessary to act or not to act," you aren't referring to the individual, but rather to some universal relationship
of action and reaction—constructive versus destructive...?
"....strengthens the connection with the 'pure spirit'."
I ask because if the "pure spirit" is everything that exists—whatever you want to call it: consciousness, the absolute, God, the collective nothingness...—how can we strengthen something that we already are, and are uniquely and solely?...
Utilizing circumstances that present an opportunity to do good for oneself and others.
Everyone possesses such opportunities, as well as the capacity to recognize them.
Often, despite the circumstances, we willfully and consciously fail to seize the chance.
And what are the reasons for failing to recognize that capacity? To reach that point, something must be overcome. What is it that gets bypassed? Judgment? Because if I harbor judgment within myself, all other low passions follow—vengeance, malice, envy, hatred... Once you realize this ability to open yourself to—let's call it—the "greater good," it becomes difficult to return to incapacity; it becomes hard to resent or judge anymore. To react, yes—but to judge, no...
An illusion is always "real," regardless of the "width" of the frame we place it in.
The width of the frame and the illusion are one and the same; the frame cannot be wider than the illusion—especially not the other way around. That illusion is everything. Or rather, what lies outside the illusion (the frame)? Is that just another illusion? A higher level of illusion?...