Suffering

The chief use of suffering is to teach me that i am nothing - Simone Weil

This is at least the useful effect of suffering.
I don't agree with somethings that Simone says, because i believe that we are the ones who create the big suffering in the world. i don't believe this just like that: I have experienced deep suffering and I have learned and lived this !!!!
God can not do something about it because it all belongs to the results of our choices.

I don't believe that it is God that sends me the suffering, or that all that happens is according to God.

I think to believe that is one of the great mistakes of religion. It is in this way that people then didn't change what needed to be changed, and what could be changed.

I need to develop this....

It constitutes one of the central parts of my view.

Recurring Patterns, Repeating Themes: Transformational chant

Recurring Patterns, Repeating Themes: Transformational chant:

"I release the old me, regret-free, endlessly. I welcome in the new me, joyfully, excitedly. I release the old me, I release the old me, I ..."

When religion becomes a big business

http://www.freedomchurchnetwork.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3632674%3ABlogPost%3A323
www.freedomchurchnetwork.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3632674%3ABlogPost%3A323

In the book of Revelation, John warns believers of a coming threat to Christianity, which He describes as

"MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." -Revelation 17:5

He describes her as "The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth." But what exactly is he warning us of? Rather than looking into church history to parse the institutions, places, and people who may fit this description. Perhaps it is of greater use to reflect on the threat to every church and every Christian regardless of place or time. I was just reading Ed Bahler's blog, and I think he summarized the actual threat that John was speaking of the best in, A Question That Could Change You:

Here’s a question that will, or at least should, penetrate deeply into our hearts:
A number of years ago, Dr. David Ryser had the privilege of teaching at a school of ministry. His students were hungry for God, and he constantly searched for ways to challenge them. One day he shared a short history of Christianity that goes like this:

Christianity started in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise.
He wanted his students to appreciate the importance of the last line, so he clarified it by adding, “An enterprise. That’s a business.”
After a few moments Martha, the youngest student in the class, asked a simple question, “A business? But isn’t it supposed to be a body?” “Yes,” Dr. Ryser assured her. She continued,
“But when a body becomes a business, isn’t that a prostitute?”
The room went dead silent. For several seconds no one moved or spoke. They were stunned, afraid to make a sound because the presence of God had flooded into the room, and they knew they were on holy ground. God had taken over the class.

Twenty-First Century Stoic - How I Became a Stoic

Twenty-First Century Stoic -- From Zen to Zeno: How I Became a Stoic - Boing Boing

Realizing the Futility of Visualizing Things? Try the Negative Visualization of the Stoics. � Nonduality Blog

This is a very good article i want to read when i have time.

I am sure it relates to what has been my experience.

Walking the spiritual path with the stoics.

Stranger in a Strange Land Part III

I don't get tired of listening to this guy and what they are doing.

Talvez particularmente significativo porque o trabalho de Swedenborg que é tão importante, ficou aprisionado por pessoas que não tinham qualquer noção de como funciona o ego de intelectuais, "escribas e farizeus....".

A primeira coisa que me aconteceu quando visitei a Biblioteca extraordinária de Swedenborg em Haia, sendo eu a única interessada (!), foi responderem-me, quando lhes perguntei sobre como isso era possível, que nos tempos de hoje em dia, não havia qualquer interesse por isto....
!!!!!!!!!!

Imagine-se, com a fome espiritual que há!

Arcana Coelestia, the most dificult in Swedenborg

Hello everyone!

Here we go then.

It isn't easy to start ... as you may have noticed ... :)

I meet up regularly with a very small group. Later I will give more details about us. Right now what is important to mention is that we are studying the Arcana Coelestia.

I have chosen consciously to start by studying what I considered to be Swedenborg's most bitter pill !

For me, it's easy to dive in this  ... since I already love the "Swedenborgian ocean" - (it was love at first sight, incidentally). For others, not yet imbued with this interest, starting with the most difficult may be a disappointment ...

I encourage everybody to whom the Old Testament, may be something similar to what was to me, (depressing!), to read on, don't give up ... 

And I adress here the people who have read the last and new book of Nobel writer Saramago, which is about and of course radically against the Bible - I promise you will be in state to bring totally new insights into the meaning of the Old Testamente - but I say that to read Swedenborg brings much more then that ability.

Mergulhar de cabeça nesta falésia... a pílula mais amarga de Swedenborg!

Olá a todos!

Aqui vamos então.

Não está fácil começar... já repararam... :)

Reuno-me periodicamente em Haia, com um pequeníssimo grupo. Mais tarde darei mais detalhes sobre a sua composição. Neste momento o que importa dizer é que estamos a estudar o Arcana Celeste.

Foi conscientemente que escolhi começar por estudar aquilo que eu considerava ser a pílula mais amarga de Swedenborg!!

Prefiro conhecer primeiro aquilo que posso não gostar, e as dificuldades; mas para o arranque do blogue isso é menos conveniente.

Para mim, é fácil mergulhar de cabeça nesta falésia... pois já amo o Oceano Swedenborgiano - (foi amor à primeira vista, aliás). Para outras pessoas, ainda não embuídas desse interesse, começar com o mais difícil, pode ser um desalento...

Quero alentar os portugueses para quem o confronto com o Antigo Testamento, possa ser algo semelhante ao que foi para mim: depressivo!  Avancem, não desistam... e, quanto mais não seja, terão muito que responder a Saramago! E quem diz que isso é pouco? É só preciso um pouco de paci|encia para chegarmos lá e a Caím... No entanto — graças à parte — há muito mais Graça em estudar Swedenborg!