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Post by rmcdra on Nov 7, 2014 3:26:14 GMT -5
Here's something "fun" to discuss. What does it mean to grow spiritually? How do you measure spiritual growth? How do you know if you are growing spiritually?
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unix
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Post by unix on Nov 7, 2014 9:49:26 GMT -5
Finding the right focus and priorities, also when it comes to You studies. I'm not talking about a balance - there's too much moralising going on when it comes to that.
Caring, but knowing when not to nag.
It's not about success finding friends or making loads of money.
Contributing.
A prayer-life.
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Post by phantasman on Nov 7, 2014 11:50:02 GMT -5
We are born into the dark. While we grow (physically), our eyes see the illusion and the mind accepts it as truth because we know no different. As we learn of what the spirit truly is, and accept it's understanding as the real truth, not seen with our eyes but understood with our mind, we continue on a path of knowledge.
The more knowledge (of Christ) we experience, the more it grows "within" us. Our questions become, not what man knows, but what the Father wants us to know. We become more guided than following, by our inner knowledge. We become knowers of self over knowers of world, and find that the is much more we don't know than we think we do know. We are attracted to the spiritual like a magnet as it becomes clearer (through knowledge) and the world itself becomes clearer. And we experience a taste of the elation, the euphoria, that can "only" come from the spirit.
It is a taste that makes us desire more, and we understand that the only limits we experience are being capped by this realm, and it's own limitations. We are still prisoners for a time. But only physically.
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Post by friendofsophia on Nov 8, 2014 22:39:31 GMT -5
I know that I am growing spiritually when I am able to do something, overcome something, express or understand something that I couldn't before. When I feel the bliss of my divine spark shining as I'm able to be myself (when I would have previously tried to be somebody else), especially when I see the contagious effect of this inspiring others to be themselves as well. Its also a good sign that I'm growing spiritually when I feel some old idea or habit suffocating me, when something that I used to be numb to perhaps becomes all too real. When the old finally splits at the seams and is cast off like an old shell, the freedom is well worth the discomfort of the process. Seek, become troubled, marvel, overcome. If we're not growing spiritually, we're shrinking; entropy is a force to be reckoned with here in the Kenoma. If we become afraid to grow, our old insights will become parodies of themselves and be the very thing that chokes our faith and imagination. If we end up valuing the shell more than that which is growing within us, we'll become stifled and twisted. If you bring it forth it will save you, if you don't, it will destroy you. When we continue to grow, old insights instead often make more sense and become more inspiring than ever before in the light of new experiences and understanding. Sometimes making mistakes is part of growing too, its unlikely one can ever hit the bulls-eye if one is deathly afraid of missing the mark.
What is the mark anyway? What's the point of "growing spiritually"? To me it's letting more and more of the Light of the Pleroma, that which we truly are, into this world of lies and darkness. Often in our own unique, often seemingly somewhat f@%#ed up ways.......but those with eyes to see....will see!!!
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