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Originally posted by Myrtales Instinct
Originally posted by ghaleon12
The Kingdom has already come here to Earth, for those that have eyes to see and ears to hear. Hell is supposed to be the farthest a person can get from God, and just so happens Earth is also the farthest. Love your neighbor as yourself, that's all we need to do in spirituality. I know some like to make it complicated and abstract, but its that simple. It isn't just unity with God, its unity among people which people sometimes forget.
Loving our neighbors as ourselves, just comes with the territory. Spirituality is an ongoing, evolving relationship with God. He's the teacher who brings us into all these spiritual truths.
I think we are all at very different levels (for lack of a better word) on the path.
Originally posted by ghaleon12
Loving others and loving God is the same, since both are seemingly separate from an individual. God gave us this earth so we could love others and match his spiritual quality of bestowal. Having a desire to love God is easy, but having a desire to love others isn't. There is only one creation that came from God, and we're all a part of that. We all have descended from one spiritual body, that's why loving others is so important. With our born nature, we are like a cancer in that spiritual body. How each person can benefit the whole is the extent to which someone is spiritual. If they focus on selfish benefit, then they are like beasts.
So simply, spirituality is matching the creator's quality of bestowal. Authentic Kabbalah has all the answers if you study it. That's my source and it can't be beat
Originally posted by Amaterasu
That is it, though... We are not "within" anything. We are not "outside" We are. I agree that the separation is illusional. I just don't agree that either humility or a superiority complex is appropriate. Respect as equal creators is.
We are each God as we manifest our consciousness in the Universe.
And I know that for many the veil of separation is still intact, with many never trying to lift it, relying on "faith" in something "bigger" than they are.
Relying on that separation.
Any who are the whole understand that any teaching that puts anyone above or below another is a false teaching.