Humility
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Humility has long been considered an important virtue. Let’s see if we can put an end to that right here.
Humility has long been considered an important virtue. Let’s see if we can put an end to that right here.
In many countries today, we live under the perception that we have freedom. Of course, few of us have ever sat down to ponder just what ‘freedom’ means. If we did, we’d soon discover some pretty interesting things. One of the things we’d discover is that we live our lives according to an enormous amount of rules, most of which we’ve never examined.
Let’s look at three lists of things, and assess their level of reality.
List One:
Trolls
Dragons
Faeries
List Two:
Me
Money
The Sensation of Movement and the Passing of Time
List Three:
Chakras
Higher Self
Kundalini Experiences
For most of us, each list represents a distinct category of realities.
List One represents things that most of us consider fantasies. These realities exist only in our heads. They may be ‘real’ in the sense that thought-forms or emotions are real, but we can probably agree that they don’t exist as external realities.
List Two represents things that we consider much more ‘real’. Me is something that I have a constant sense of, and . . .