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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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finding power from an outside source
    #7931593 - 01/25/08 07:13 PM (16 years, 7 days ago)

I think higher power is actually our will which we can separate ourselves from through self-defeating beliefs. So why do some people see results from seeking out a higher power as if they didn't already have it inside them?

I wonder if it is because there is no difference between inside/outside or if the belief that something higher is guiding someone, that actually gives them the confidence to act out their will.

Do you think believing in something higher can ever be more pragmatic than believing in oneself? Is there a difference? Maybe it's all in the way the mind approaches this, or rather the personality.


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Re: finding power from an outside source [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7931693 - 01/25/08 07:31 PM (16 years, 7 days ago)

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EternalCowabunga said:
I wonder if it is because there is no difference between inside/outside or if the belief that something higher is guiding someone, that actually gives them the confidence to act out their will. 




The key word, "confidence"....    :thumbup:
Whether it be a true sense, or false sense.... 


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Re: finding power from an outside source [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7931696 - 01/25/08 07:32 PM (16 years, 7 days ago)

I think you're probably right, but there is a certain appeal to feeling like your actions are part of something much bigger than yourself. In some ways they are, because we are not isolated or atomized (even if it feels that way sometimes,) we are part of the world and of many communities within it. That doesn't mean that one's actions are empowered by or caused by a "higher power" enacting some kind of grand plan. Maybe the higher power thing is a way to explain the feeling of being one small agent in a larger world, influenced by larger historical forces...


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Re: finding power from an outside source [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7934096 - 01/26/08 09:17 AM (16 years, 6 days ago)



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Re: finding power from an outside source [Re: Veritas]
    #7934220 - 01/26/08 10:10 AM (16 years, 6 days ago)

:lol:


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Re: finding power from an outside source [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7934316 - 01/26/08 10:44 AM (16 years, 6 days ago)

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EternalCowabunga said:So why do some people see results from seeking out a higher power as if they didn't already have it inside them?




They haven't realized the deep connectioon between self and the universe, or their perspective is more rooted in duality rather than awareness. You could still see results without having had this realization.


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