How to grow your soul

Transcendence. Good stuff. Never liked 'competition', as we understand it, that's just egos battling it out, You be you, I'll be me. What a concept.

A daily short walk, ideally away from built up areas, amongst the 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 will be a good way to start one's journey to addressing the stresses of today's hustle and bustle.

The Soul is Omni, cannot be grown.

We sure hope to be growing ^ ^ our mastery of ego plllllease 🙏🙏

Perhaps without jealousy people cannot compare themselves to those who do better and so feel no reason to develop (or compete). There is very little I'm jealous of, I really can't think of much aside from people with knowledge. And even then, most knowledge is a bore. People who are better prepared for any disturbance? But if I am not prepared, there's always a shortcut if the disturbance is fatal. People who have no problems? But then they are not prepared. Hard to say.

I appreciate Luc’s presentation; simple, not philosophical, direct, and action oriented. There are many success plans on the market, and many of them choose the negative approach. Get rid of this, don’t eat that, control that. Real change as Luc is pointing out is doing something positive in place of the negative. Why is this? Let’s start with Luc’s statement about misery; who wants to be miserable? Who wants to be angry? Who wants to be cynical? Who wants to be in self-pity? We would all say no, I don’t want that. Yet as Gurdjieff pointed out, the one thing people will not give up is their suffering. Why? Because suffering has become a part of false identity. We all feel we need an identity and a suffering one is as good as a happy one. To give up your suffering is to give up your sense of self, so many can’t do it.

Each of us is different. We are each in a process of consciousness growth through experience. How can we work with each other, and not judge? What is judgment? There are many elements to it. One of those is that another’s actions affect me, and in fact are taken as not my way of doing things. Jesus said, “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.” What is he saying? When you judge, see it as a mirror, and your reaction is the mirror’s image. Another element, is fear of another, and then judgment is about protecting oneself. Another element, is irritation, because another does not move fast or slow enough. How to even begin? Let go. Accept the other as they are by accepting your reaction as another sense like sight.

One of the keys to a good life is gratitude. Most think of gratefulness as happening, when something occurs then we are grateful. This is a passive understanding of gratitude. You can choose to be grateful for what occurs in your life. Why? If you don’t accept your life as it is, then how can you process the experience and move from where you are? If you resent things that have occurred, aren’t you wasting your remaining time? Forgiveness is another key, because it cuts the chains of negative events in your life.

We are all aware of perspective which gives us a sense of 3 dimensional space or objects. We are seeing objects from different facets or angles. What is “perspective” in intellectual reasoning and in emotional reasoning? It is the same, different angles or facets of thoughts and emotions. By being aware that there are different perspectives, that your own perspective is not the only one, frees you from much conflict with others. In other words, you can let go, and let them be.

I will end with a Jesus quote from the Gospel of Thomas, because it is a teaching that to know your Self is the path. “When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."

I'm just another way of being you. Whatever I wish/want/desire/for you I do for me. Separation is illusion.

A good quote that helped me, though I remember not where it came from, nor the exact wording:

"You are not great enough to be free from jealousy. At least be great enough to not be ashamed of it."

They say that jealousy is the negative pole of the Jovian/Jupiter value of 'Happiness for others'.

Likewise:

Greed is the Lunar opposite of altruism.

Laziness is the opposite pole of Mercurian industriousness and diligence.

Lust, the negative pole of Venusian chastity.

Pride the negative vice of the Solar virtue of faith and humility.

Anger being the opposite pole of Martian conscious love.

Gluttony as the negative pole of Saturnian self-control and temperance.

As Hermes Trismegistus teaches in The Kybalion, every negative energy or vice has its pole, and one can switch and transform their negative state by going straight to the positive value or virtue. Hence, all heavy metals can be transformed into gold.

I would also say that Pride is equally as devastating and destructive, and that it comes in so many shades and disguises itself behind great walls of spirituality, religion, knowledge. There is spiritual pride, just as there is religious jealousy.

Does anyone know Father Ripperger? [Link]
He mentions in this interview that the body adapts to the polarity of the soul. He provides this dynamic as the reason why doing bad things feel good to some people (and vice versa).

He's REALLY interesting and should be explored on SOTT.

"I learned that the world has a soul, and whoever understands this soul will understand the language of things." - Pαυℓσ Cσєℓнσ [Link]

"... but to compete against our own lower nature, our own mistakes and bad habits, our own illusions about ourselves and the world. "

Truly.

As Vernon Howard is quoted as saying, “You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED” [Link]
Some other person sang something about 'You can't always get what you want..." but I just can't remember the name...