The Human Way

When my 'spiritual' journey became conscious, I entertained various notions of how the game would play out, would the fruit of my labours mesh with my minds concept of what being spiritual meant or would it land me somewhere different.

As I trundled along somewhat clumsily at times & purposely at others illusions & self concepts fell away as well. Over a period of time I could gaze back & see the road travelled, but still had no idea of what lay around the next bend.

Illusions of having to live up to being a God or a Monster broke away. Motivations & driving forces came & went. Things always took the route of the unexpected.

The one & maybe only constant I find these days is my humaness. My mind seemed to expect that I would evolve into some sort of untouchable being completely free of human frailties & neurosises. Now I find that it is exactly these perseved liabilities that make life real, that give it substance, that even create the mortar of life. Here I was thinking it was all about exorcising them out of me.

The more I embrace all the dumb, silly, awkward, angry, sad , childlike, eccentric & downright embarrassing stuff that occurs in me the bigger the playing field becomes.

I understand that each being has a unique road to hoe, this is mine so far.

I just wanted to share.......

Beautiful!

Yes, I believe that we should accept and embrace our human qualities. It is great to be human and to be alive! :)


eudaimonia,

Mark

[Squatchit]

Nice.

Maybe it's time to change your username...

Originally Posted by Squatchit

Nice.

Maybe it's time to change your username...

Yep. I seem to have done a complete 360 lately

[andrew g]

Funnily enough I read your message but didnt want to be the first to reply for some reason so I went off and did something else. While I was doing that I realized that I wasnt comfortable calling you 'not human'! So I will do what NightSpirit does and call you 'nh' if thats okay.

I might be misinterpreting but it sounds to me like what you are describing is an unfolding path of self-acceptance. My path has also been one of self-acceptance and continues to be in its own slow but sure way, and actually, in the end, I struggle to see how anyone's path could NOT be one of self-acceptance, even for those who have had big and dramatic 'realizations'.

[Saggi]

Hi Nothuman,

I remembered a quote and put it into Google just to verify that it was correct and found a page that I found interesting and thought I would share it with you!

This is the quote:

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

This is the page:

http://healpastlives.com/future/rule/ruhuman.htm

Love and hugs

Jo

XxXx

[Gem]

Totally dude... maybe you could change your name to "not human, not."

Originally Posted by andrew g

Funnily enough I read your message but didnt want to be the first to reply for some reason so I went off and did something else. While I was doing that I realized that I wasnt comfortable calling you 'not human'! So I will do what NightSpirit does and call you 'nh' if thats okay.

I might be misinterpreting but it sounds to me like what you are describing is an unfolding path of self-acceptance. My path has also been one of self-acceptance and continues to be in its own slow but sure way, and actually, in the end, I struggle to see how anyone's path could NOT be one of self-acceptance, even for those who have had big and dramatic 'realizations'.

I agree Andrew.......but it is the intamacy of the unfounding that floors me. I am continually amazed that it's the every day mind, the one that you push away time & time again that liberates us.
I called myself not human when I first logged on to this forum because that was exactly the way I felt at that time. Isn't life a kicker??

Originally Posted by Gem

Totally dude... maybe you could change your name to "not human, not."

Well...Gem was taken

Originally Posted by Saggi

Hi Nothuman,

I remembered a quote and put it into Google just to verify that it was correct and found a page that I found interesting and thought I would share it with you!

This is the quote:

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

This is the page:

http://healpastlives.com/future/rule/ruhuman.htm

Love and hugs

Jo

XxXx

Thanks Jo I like that