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"I'm spiritual. I know that if you want things to happen, they can. The youth need to know that: you can have that Benz. You can have those diamonds. You just gotta work for them."

Nelly

I know there's a lot of crank about, but perhaps these words from the chart-topping entertainer can provide balm for your sorrows -- and maybe a little inspiration too.

enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

Funniest thing ever overheard in a cafe in the East Village = "He understands where I'm coming from, spiritualy, and he respects that."

Or something like that. I'm sorry, I guess you just had to hear the earnest tone in which this was pronounced by some stinky dreadlocked hipster chick. I could not keep from laughing out loud.

As I cannot keep from laughing at Nelly.

Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 12:22 (twenty years ago) link

Also, freedom is a heart thing.

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 12:22 (twenty years ago) link

nine years pass...

WHat is spirituality to me? The highest hgoals that humans can achieve that are removed from base pleasures - self denial. A cosmic purpose to life.
1. health - fitness and diet
2. non-violence and controlling of anger
3. kindness and goodwill - helping others
4. doing good work - acheiving things

But why couldn't spirituality be about humans NOT being the ones who do perfect things? HUmans are flawed and imperfect. Maybe an android could so thiese things. Do we look to God's will to help us be more godlike? But how do we measure? If its God will are we at all at fault?

1. laziness and eating junk food
2. violence and expressing anger
3. meanness and badwill - harming others - self preservation
4. not accomplishing anything

Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link

pretty sure the last one us on us if nothing else

my dinner of butt (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link

Getting away from base pleasures is not self denial unless you think you are wholly defined by your base pleasures.

I think spirituality is basically about trying to see the world objectively, walking a day in your neighbor's shoes rather than your own, realizing that you are NOT the center of the universe. This can extend from simple charity to experimenting with consciousness.

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link

my neighbour's got better shoes, it annoys me

first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link

are we animals or angels

Mike Hanle y, Monday, 17 December 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

seven years pass...

Have you heard of the secret Book of Dzyan?

Generations of Truth-seekers have been searching for this mysterious manuscript of untold antiquity that conceals the entire wisdom of the world, yet only a chosen few have ever gained access to it. Thus, in 2015, Zinovia Dushkova, Ph.D., published a new excerpt from the Book of Dzyan in The Book of Secret Wisdom that revealed the future and destiny of humanity. At that time, however, she was not allowed to disclose anything more about the Book of Dzyan than Helena Blavatsky had already done in her time.

But now, for the first time ever, Dr. Dushkova has been permitted to cast more light on the Book of Dzyan and answer the following questions:
Who are the authors of the Book of Dzyan?
Where was it stored in the past, and where is it now?
What are its structure and contents?
When was the Book of Dzyan written?
Why is it now of such great significance, even in your own life?
In addition, you will also learn about the attempt that the Masters of Wisdom made to enlighten the world in the 20th century and what challenges face humanity in the 21st century.

| (Latham Green), Friday, 17 January 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link

oh sick

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 17 January 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link

Learning the Four Noble Truths don't require an entire Book of Secret Wisdom. You can fit them all on a business card.

A is for (Aimless), Friday, 17 January 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link

quickly - take yoru idea to Amazon!

| (Latham Green), Friday, 17 January 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link

remember yiou live in a universe

| (Latham Green), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link


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