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Deviate
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Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child?
#19069527 - 11/01/13 11:51 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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The difference of course being that you get to keep the wisdom you gained from growing in the world?
Basically we come into the world pure with empty minds, ready to learn. What we learn and how we learn it will largely determine the persons would become as adults. Often times choices we think we freely made were just our programming trying to fend off a threat.
Anyway, after we discover the spiritual path, we begin to throw away all the mental noise that isn't useful. Our minds become quiet and childlike once again and we remember our childhood years more vividly. Yay or nay?
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: Deviate]
#19069758 - 11/01/13 12:41 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yay.
Very ancient wisdom -- that you are best served in life by retaining that portion of your childhood that allowed you to see innocently and in an unadorned manner.
To survive in the world, however, we need a degree of cunning. But best not to lose all of what we were -- and what we saw -- as children.
Nice post, Deviate.
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: all this beauty]
#19070037 - 11/01/13 01:57 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I thought a lot about this just yesterday. I used to be incredibly sensitive to the point of crying once because I noticed someone broke down a block away from my house. I was told that I shouldn't be upset because those broken down people weren't me. I was told it wasnt normal.
You have to tell kids to be fearful, racist, and paranoid.
I was thinking about how impossible it will be to ever be that perfect again. Our society doesn't nurture healing pain and security.
Excellent thread.
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: Deviate]
#19070555 - 11/01/13 03:52 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Eastern and Western philosophy preach the child state of mind.
I don't know if I think like a child or an adult. I want to think I think like a child but it seems egoic/un-child-like to say I think like a child when I know this is the desired mindset from a spiritual standpoint.
I make childish decisions that may prove costly in my future if that counts
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: cez]
#19071158 - 11/01/13 05:37 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Not to mention the nasty children in my neighborhood. It wasn't all lovey dovey that's for sure.
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: Icelander]
#19071276 - 11/01/13 05:58 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Lots of really nasty 4 and 5 year olds out there.....
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: Deviate]
#19071410 - 11/01/13 06:27 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I speak to you as a person that has always had a spiritual domain I consisted in, a domain where I could not refuse to acknowledge that I was attaining a spirit where I was no longer apparent. I would not be conceived in the spirit as a domain that belonged to myself, I would belong to something outside of myself, as if I was receiving signals from some deity sending these symbolic gestures to put me into a spiritual trance.
Some state of minds we wish to seek to have the meditative trance represented to form it into one fused orbit, one orbit in which the trance became the representation of the natural world, the world in which you became the world you had lived in forever. We have lived in a world where spiritual energy is suppressed, where we no longer wish to reveal the spirit of the human psyche in each of our significant gestures, as if certain gestures are meant to imply some vague substance of a conversation in which indicated a valuable key point readily noted. People were perhaps also wish to discover the source that revealed this spiritual energy, energy which couldn't be accounted for in world history, as if this energy was somehow of a purer breed and thus was sought after as if the last resource on Earth. Though it was also not with the energy harnessed that they werent able to reduce any contrary feelings of being disillusioned to the thought that your spirit can save you in later events.
For in some cases we will wish to never attach ourselves to these shady notions built up by fake prophets, prophets to which I could never trust myself to, since I was most likely the only prophet that actually had real things to say, things that seemed to "strike further than usual", as if he was indicating some subtle nuance that strikingly distinguished the immense differences of certain elements of physics. Some people are so assured that there voice shall produce the mighty echoes of a retired prophet, a prophet that no longer produced anymore speeches. He decided he was never going to ever present another word to the people, that he was going to abandon his voice to something else, to never use his voice to make his piece heard again, never indeed to betray the function that employed the voice to present the hypnotic rhythms of a deep slumber. For if you wish to stay around people that are sleeping, and you don't deny the temptation to continue to prolong your time with them, as if purposely having a desire to invite them to also project your sleep onto them, and also persuading friends to come join them in this sleep activity, but then also alerting them to the presence of someone that recently left the drawing room with this girl. The girl was this extremely charming person, the kind of person that had a personality that radiated like the multitude of different seasons glittering down their perfumes of that season, for we wish to have certain perfumes over others, and will make certain it is heard that they wanted this perfume over all others, for this one came from 80s. It was actually resurrected from an old company that first opened its doors to the public in 1980, I remember it like it was yesterday, I went there and got this perfume I was the first one in line. I was anxiously anticipating the moment that the person behind the counter would present me with the alluring perfume, the perfume which I couldn't help glaring at seeking to make it mine, somehow someway I was going to obtain the perfume that he pointed at with his index finger.
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: drkkenny]
#19072047 - 11/01/13 08:35 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't read walls.
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: Yogi1]
#19075230 - 11/02/13 01:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yogi1 said: I don't read walls.
White space and paragraph breaks. The Miracle Drugs.
One can write absolute gibberish and nonsense, but if enough white space and paragraph breaks are included, people will read it.
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: all this beauty]
#19075261 - 11/02/13 01:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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all this beauty said:
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Yogi1 said: I don't read walls.
White space and paragraph breaks. The Miracle Drugs.
One can write absolute gibberish and nonsense, but if enough white space and paragraph breaks are included, people will read it.
Because they cared enough to present their ideas in readable fashion.
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all this beauty
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: Yogi1]
#19075368 - 11/02/13 02:19 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yogi1 said:
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all this beauty said:
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Yogi1 said: I don't read walls.
White space and paragraph breaks. The Miracle Drugs.
One can write absolute gibberish and nonsense, but if enough white space and paragraph breaks are included, people will read it.
Because they cared enough to present their ideas in readable fashion.
This is true. Though I think it's largely a generational thing.
I'm old, so I need a lot of white space in order for my feeble and dying brain to absorb a lot of data all at once. Young people who are used to getting all their data in chunks, on their personal hand-held whatevers, don't necessarily have this limitation.
Someday I and my fellow old fogies will all be dead, and this entire subject will be moot.
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: all this beauty]
#19075436 - 11/02/13 02:33 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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To post a wall of text on a forum is to be self important enough to think its worth that much time. Kenny often displays that. It's annoying. We're equally dumb.
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: Yogi1]
#19075514 - 11/02/13 02:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Not in depends yet
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: Morel Guy]
#19075532 - 11/02/13 02:54 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Me either. See how it didn't take two long paragraphs to say that?
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Re: Anyone notice that as you progress on the spiritual path you go back to how you were as a child? [Re: Yogi1]
#19075541 - 11/02/13 02:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yogi1 said: To post a wall of text on a forum is to be self important enough to think its worth that much time. Kenny often displays that. It's annoying. We're equally dumb.
I hear ya.
Look... I have the utmost respect for any non-troll who posts in this or any other internet forum dedicated to spiritual stuff.
A huge percentage of American internet posters are at this moment posting on boards dedicated to the proposition that President Barack Obama is a commie Marxist fag-loving non-American who wants to euthanize our grandmothers.
So, if you're posting in good faith in a forum entitled "Spirituality and Mysticism," I immediately cut you some slack.
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