Starting a new life this year.

[Paul lee James]

I am pondering starting a new life this year. It's about living my philosophies psychologies theosophies or my beliefs. Believing is one action living them is another. Either you believe them or you are living a illusion. Living what I truly believe to the fullest. The more I think about it the more it makes since.

Am I willing to die for what I truly believe in? The teachers of old all lived there beliefs even to there deaths. Can one truly become more human when one challenges death? Challenges the mysteries of death. In challenging it we seem to become more alive. Is this action finding our own truths.

What good is knowledge as wisdom if we do not use or share it? Some in philosophy say question everything the mysteries the doubts even the beliefs and in doing so find the true meaning of life. Paul

[Paul lee James]

What is knowledge and wisdom if not shared? I understand me and this world. I am taking my experiences of my life be they good or bad and hopefully tell other what happen to me both good and bad. In hopes they to will not follow in my foot steps the bad. I try to help them anyway I can to understand why bad things are happening to them. We are out own best friend or our worst enemy by our own thoughts and beliefs. That's what I have learned in my seventy years here. Plus how to love all with bias and prejudice. Paul

[Hari Menon]

Dear Paul ,

      Practice makes a man perfect , one has to live his philosophies and theosophies other wise it is worthless and only an intellectual exercise . It has to permeate your life and become yourself - after all these disciplines are concerned with the Truth and one cannot afford to either be double faced or live a lie . Practice of sublime character purifies a person and speeds him on the path of God realization. Deep truths are unfolded easily , but assiduous practice is a must ,

Why should one die for all this ? this is all concerned with not dying !!! after realization people live - nobody dies for another in the spiritual world - one lives so that others may be saved - it would be a travesty to have deaths and suffering in the spiritual arena . These kinds of foolish notions belong more to the deluded worldly intellect. All the God realized people I have come across have chosen to live for the benifit of mankind - though they have nothing to do , it is only their love of mankind that makes them choose a path of imparting knowledge and austerities .

[Paul lee James]

Deb,

 You do not have to hurt them you must put a new question about what they believe in there head to ponder. The truth is the hardest thing to convince someone.

But if you get them to question there belief they will ponder and question it bringing to light the truth as it is not as they see and belief it is. I see and understand the world as it is and how it beliefs, 

I see and understand it but do not want to be part of it accept to help others find there truth and not the worlds. Paul

[Deb]

Hi, Paul;    I think I'm on this path, too.  I work in a library and occasionally interesting books come across my desk.  This one put itself in front of me a month or two ago:  Radical Honesty.   I read it fast.  It made an impact on me. It's not an easy thing to do, but so worthy.  It made me realize how much all the little ways in which we are dishonest really muck up our lives.  There are some other books I found related to this one that intrigue me as well, especially one called Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion ....  I think that's especially hard for Southern women, when we've been told all our lives, as little girls, to "be nice", "don't hurt others' feelings", "don't say that, it's not nice", etc.   Because being nice equals being liked.  Catch 22.   

So, it's going to be interesting, and difficult, because I like being nice, I don't like hurting people's feelings, disappointing them, etc. and I especially don't like the way it feels when those I love are unhappy with me.  That will be the real test. 

Best wishes on the journey!