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the power of positive thought is a life
these are two extreme different emotional situations and noone of these has a clue or the slightest touch,
Originally posted by WickettheRabbit
We are all one in the same sense that your body is one, but made of billions of individuals.
Does your hand know about your foot? No. Your mind does, but your hand is as separate from your foot as I am from you.
So the question becomes, is there a mind for our collective reality or are we all just hands and feet?
Humanity is nothing like a human body. The hand isn't separate from the foot. They're attached! You should edit your post to remove that analogy.
Originally posted by LesMisanthrope
Originally posted by WickettheRabbit
We are all one in the same sense that your body is one, but made of billions of individuals.
Does your hand know about your foot? No. Your mind does, but your hand is as separate from your foot as I am from you.
So the question becomes, is there a mind for our collective reality or are we all just hands and feet?
Humanity is nothing like a human body. The hand isn't separate from the foot. They're attached! You should edit your post to remove that analogy.
Picture a table. I name one corner a foot, the other a hand. Are they separate?
Common sense 101
Originally posted by Glass
reply to post by wrdwzrd
We are all one, of this I am certain, and we are all capable of realizing this. The key to understanding is not to desire understanding, but to trust that your questions WILL be answered.
If the primary object of your focus is the desire for understanding, then your life becomes a quest for understanding in which your goal will always elude you. Doubt creeps into your mind, you question what you think you know and you're left confused, not knowing what to believe. You begin to believe that nothing can ever be known for certain and thus you come to know nothing. Trust in your intuition, and trust what the universe is trying to show you.
How can a life based on kindness to others, or seeking truth and inner peace, possibly be considered evil?
Since I came to this understanding of oneness I began to see others as no different than myself. In another life, I had been them. I had known their hopes and fears, their pain and their joy. I had been you, reading my words on the screen before you. You had been me, writing these words to yourself. When you see that all is one you know that anything you do to others, you are doing to yourself, so why not have a positive effect on others whenever possible?
How can this philosophy be seen as an evil one? How have I been deceived?
My opinion is that doubt is the enemy here. "Satan" wants you to be deceived into thinking that we are all enemies.
I think "Satan" has deceived many Christians, Muslims and Jews into believing that their Gods are not one, and that is the problem. He sets us all against each other, playing on our fear, creating hatred, conflict, division...
Some seem to believe that Satan is more powerful than God...but how can this be? God is All. Satan is only a small subset of the All, the "evil side". Satan means accuser or adversary, as you may know, and what does an adversary do but provide a challenge to be overcome?
Some seem to believe that their name for God is the only name for God, that a God by any other name is a creation of Satan and not to be trusted in any capacity. I think this idea is the real creation of Satan. How could Satan be so powerful to reveal himself to billions more people than the true God and deceive them all. Does it not make more sense to say that all worship the same, true, all powerful God, and that Satan has merely deceived them into thinking that the Gods are not one?
Satan, the accuser, is not a powerful being in his own right. His power relies on the weakness of men. He has no physical form, he is merely a collection of dark thoughts which insert themselves into minds which are susceptible to negativity. He only has power over you if you hand it over to him. If you live your life by positive virtues, there is little chance that Satan can decieve you.