Posted by Alex Caughey on February 18, 2020, 4:51 am
Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. — Hebrews 11:6
Here lies the dilemma for many, if not most of us believing that there is something beyond that which our senses dictate, there is not.
Our senses have a well established habit of depending upon that which we understand to be the human self, responding to the stimuli daily confronting us with life's invitation to live another day celebrating the gift of being alive.
Relying on the senses necessarily includes embracing those feelings that we can sense danger even when not seeing, or hearing danger's footsteps in close proximity. That awareness that we are at risk rises from within our being sufficiently to persuade us that we should respond to its further advice to save our life.
Knowing, without understanding why we know, is our growing awareness that within our life we are living at one with the creator of all that we are becoming.
Catholic mystics readily acknowledge that their understandings are drawn from within their person, as if to say that there is another reality of life living at one with every human person, also known to us as The Saviour.
“Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.” ― Teresa of Avila
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Re: Knowing
Posted by Pete on February 18, 2020, 6:46 am, in reply to "Knowing"
The unspiritual person lives primarily within the realm of their thoughts and feelings, using these as their guide, indifferent or even hostile to spiritual inclinations. Of those that are open to the spiritual "channel", there are those who attempt to use spirituality as a means to serving their egos and themselves (e.g New Agers, occultists, Prosperity Gospellers, etc). Then there are those Gnostically inclined who seem to have the spiritual and intellectual channels confused, expressing an inordinate emphasis on "knowledge", which they of course possess in superior amounts! Once again, egotism and self-centredness are at play, disguised behind a pseudo-spiritual and intellectual veneer. Those divested of selfish and egotistical inclinations manifest a docility to God's Will that expresses the pure selflessness and love perfectly realised in the Life, Passion, Death and Resurrection of God's Son and Our Saviour Jesus.
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Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. — Hebrews 11:6
Here lies the dilemma for many, if not most of us believing that there is something beyond that which our senses dictate, there is not.
Our senses have a well established habit of depending upon that which we understand to be the human self, responding to the stimuli daily confronting us with life's invitation to live another day celebrating the gift of being alive.
Relying on the senses necessarily includes embracing those feelings that we can sense danger even when not seeing, or hearing danger's footsteps in close proximity. That awareness that we are at risk rises from within our being sufficiently to persuade us that we should respond to its further advice to save our life.
Knowing, without understanding why we know, is our growing awareness that within our life we are living at one with the creator of all that we are becoming.
Catholic mystics readily acknowledge that their understandings are drawn from within their person, as if to say that there is another reality of life living at one with every human person, also known to us as The Saviour.
“Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.” ― Teresa of Avila