'Distress' Articles
Is the spirit that comes to relieve you of your broken shell evil, or an angel of mercy? Do you know evil truely? Is it not possible that you are under the influence of evils that taint this world to such a degree that everyone accepts them as normal?
When you see the pattern you realize you aren’t defined by it. When you see that ‘what I am’ and ‘what I am not’ are of shallow meaning.
When I see that though I may define myself as being “not” something, I can be that thing, and when I define myself as “being” something that can cease.
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection” Thomas Paine
Spiritual Nature of Distress
Many people consider the joy they find in the path, but if in distress they believe themselves to be off of the path. In fact our spiritual life moves in peace or in distress, in joy or in the “dark night of the soul”. Distress is in fact an opportunity. When we are distressed there is a reason, but we are taught that to be distressed is a failure. I would say that to deny distress is in its own way a failure. We do not create distress. When there is inner conflict (especially when this conflict is deep seated)… Seek More
Feeling Pain
Why can’t people accept that they can’t control their life or others? They misidentify themselves so they don‘t know who they are. They think there is a “them” that needs to struggle. For example, accepting a suicide is hard, and there is no such thing as merely accepting. Life exists in a pattern of tensions and many seek freedom without knowing what they seek freedom from. My own spiritual path involves confronting things like this. Spirituality isn’t all bliss. It’s sometimes hard grinding pain. Many expect it to be all bliss, and get so down and disappointed when it isn’t. Spiritual… Seek More
Love Beyond Limits
There is a love beyond human limits. It is the peace that allows balance in the planets eco-systems. It’s the rhythms that perpetuate life on this world despite some species being so determinedly self destructive. It is our nature which we so often ignore because “I” is afraid. Afraid for themselves and for their extended selves as they think of them. Many enter a partnership and don’t really look at their partner. Their partner just becomes part of their identity. They are someone’s husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend. So this fear is corrosive if it’s permitted to be. Fear… Seek More
Autistic Perspective
I am considered autistic and in the case of an autistic in general, they experience the world in the opposite direction. No screening. So they relate to you as the idea in their head. They can potentially grow and reflect you more clearly and they can be reached. And I promise you they do know distress quite strongly. Basically an autistic cannot screen details, and thus they get overwhelmed and develop coping habits that seem strange to others. You can bond with them, but it has to happen differently. I still struggle with some normal concepts like love, but we… Seek More
