QotW - How do you see yourself?

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QotW - How do you see yourself?
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Thu, 05-04-2006 - 9:36am

Are we one Spirit?  Are we separate Spirits?  How do you see yourself in relation to those around you?


I recently came across The Voice of Knowledge, by Don Miguel Ruiz (who also wrote The Four Agreements).  He presents a view of self and one's journey that is so clear, I just hope I can do justice to it here!


He says (paraphrased) that we are all writing our own stories.  No one else can know us, and we see those around us as outside of our story.  Others see us as outside of their own story as well, so every time we interact with someone, we interpret them through our own experience, which is always tainted because we don't know their story.  It follows that the only logical approach to getting along is through love and understanding that we are each writing our own story.  Sometimes I have a role in another's or they in mine, but the journal is strictly mine.


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Thu, 05-04-2006 - 11:30am

Hmmm... interesting idea.

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Thu, 05-04-2006 - 3:47pm
I see myself as my own spirit, just one leaf on the tree of life, no more or less important than any other leaf, connected by the tree but a separate leaf.
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Thu, 05-04-2006 - 5:25pm

Like a single drop in the river, separate but not.


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Thu, 05-04-2006 - 6:54pm
one soul that carries the illusion of being an entity, but

 

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Registered: 01-31-2006
Fri, 05-05-2006 - 1:28am
Wow, I don't think I'd add anything to that, you said it beautifully!!
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Fri, 05-05-2006 - 3:54am
Everybody's pretty much said what I was thinking.


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Fri, 05-05-2006 - 12:11pm

Or as Deepak Chopra (sorry if I butchered that spelling) says in "The Book of Secrets" ... paraphrasing ... everything you see, feel, hear, touch, taste is just manifested in you mind by chemical signals and electricity. Even when you look at stars it isn't real until it enters your brain so even the farthest reaches of the galaxy are created when they reach you and your mind, connecting us as all part of the same fabric of time and space.

Wow, that's deep. I had to read that part of his book about three times before I could get it to stick. LOL!

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Tue, 05-09-2006 - 12:52pm
I think I am both, I have my own spirit but I am one with ny DH and my faith.
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Wed, 05-10-2006 - 2:51pm
I see myself as seperate but still conected with those around me. ;0)

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Thu, 05-11-2006 - 9:32am
I agree......

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