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Everyone deserves someone to make you look forward to tomorrow, next week, next month, next year & the rest of your life.
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~*~*~* Live in OM *~*~*~ ~~~Swami Rama Tirtha ~~~ <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
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Yea yea I know how you feel I've got some sore thumbs myself from relationships. Don't let it get to your toes also! Alfie
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Yea yea I know how you feel I've got some sore thumbs myself from relationships. Don't let it get to your toes also! Alfie Just a little bit cynical alfie? Let dead dogs lie.
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Yea yea I know how you feel I've got some sore thumbs myself from relationships. Don't let it get to your toes also! Alfie Just a little bit cynical alfie? Let dead dogs lie. ahh mr. metaphor man and if i have become cynical how about the wise fool you see in the mirror? Alfie
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Everyone deserves someone to make you look forward to tomorrow, next week, next month, next year & the rest of your life. Yes i understand what you are saying Alfie. We use metaphors and oxymorons to describe ourselves and our lives. i just find it interesting: Here i am at the Mad Greek Restaurant again reminded of the Greek philosophers and suddenly i hear a woman in the booth next to me saying: "I know who i am. i do not know about you." i am thinking to myself do we even begin to recognize how we set up our lives thinking we do know who we are? We set ourselves up for so many surprises that way. But then again if we knew we would not be able to do the dance. The dance of life. Or at the very least it would be done in avery differnt manner.
It is just good to keep in mind we really can not imagine how a relationship will turn out. It is always much different than we were prepared to imagine. Many times in life we can look back and see that the person we looked forward towards tomorrow, next week, next month next year and the rest of our lives was no other than the one that walks in our shoes. Because when we look back we have learned incredibly from the experience of being alone. Yet we have been trained to believe aloness is somehow something banished or wrong.
Others can make us feel this way through the relationships that they boast about. That is O.K. People believe they need others to somehow affirm their existance and i am not speaking bad of such things. Yet have you ever stopped to think what we do to validify our lives? What subtle ways the ego needs to be pacified by outside influences? We as loners should often be very happy that spirit is leading us into and on a very important path for a time. A path into our own being where the source of all the joy and love we are looking for in others resides.
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there is nothing wrong with being in a relationship. there is nothing wrong with not being in a relationship.
soul craves unity. soul craves oneness,,,sometimes soul looks for unity and oneness in human relationships instead of with god.
some say the only way back to god is to be a renunciant...not true. an example of this is lahiri mahasaya. he was a successful business man and married.
example of a successful renunciant...paramahansa yogananda.
god can be obtained either way. both have their challenges.
love&hugs&om yoshi
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there is nothing wrong with being in a relationship. there is nothing wrong with not being in a relationship.
soul craves unity. soul craves oneness,,,sometimes soul looks for unity and oneness in human relationships instead of with god.
some say the only way back to god is to be a renunciant...not true. an example of this is lahiri mahasaya. he was a successful business man and married.
example of a successful renunciant...paramahansa yogananda.
god can be obtained either way. both have their challenges.
love&hugs&om yoshi
Dear One i think you are missing the point here dear Yoshi. Jitendra is very aware that there are many paths to the infinite beloved. What he is saying if i may kindly say for him, is that there are some people who come in our lives in the name of love who really do not bring what they claim to others. They really do not love but come and bring pain in other people's lives. It is fortunate for them that there are other people who really do care and come to heal and not aggravate wounds from the careless use of the word love. I shower rose petals on you, Morning Star
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thanks morning star.....yet it was a response in general. i appreciate the showers of rose petals....and the picture is most beautiful !!!
love&hugs&9m yoshi
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Someday there will be nothing but love and when that day comes there will be perfect understanding. Until then we remain separated and love has a longing. Recognizing our own need for love is the first step in that understanding. Until then we only add to our misery by satisfying our longings with people and situations that only add to our longing and disatisfaction. The love we are seeking we draw to us and the more and more we are aware of its presence the more our joy increases in our knowing. It is hunting us down and seeking us out because of our devotion to it.
Love is only painful because it demands the death of all that we imagine we are. Love is so much more than our manufactured concepts. It may not be either a relationship or aloness. What makes us so sure that we can describe it or live it the way we have imagined itt? Maybe that is part of the difficulty we have with experiencing love. We must be opem to however it happens to manifest. Yet when we feel its presence we are ready and willing to follow.
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Many people speak of Lahiri Mahasaya and say look he was in a relationship and was an example to us all that we can have a relationship and still find God. i agree but we must remember that the wife of Ramakrishna was a saint and the wife of Lahiri Mahasaya was very spiritually developed herself. Do we have such partners in our lives? That is what i look for in a partner. Otherwise i can do my practices on my own.
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