The goal here is not to make you think what I think, or believe anything at all, but to offer facts and let you decide. Ultimately, we have a brain which is complex and powerful. I think that if we have it, we should use it. Though many have said it is wise to not spend too much time in your head thinking. We can get lost in our thoughts and meanwhile, nothing gets done, not in our life or in the impact we have on the world. That right there is a moral question itself. Is it right to spend your life doing nothing, making no impact in the world, only consuming resources?
So while all of this is about ideas, about God, about worship, then I intend to keep it as simple and obvious as possible. While one can find more than enough arguments on these topics from religious people, atheists, and philosophies, I am not going to contest things here. I’ll give you evidence and thoughts, but not arguments. So take it or leave it. But if you are seeking God, or wanting to examine ideas from another perspective, please stay and read.
My purpose for these writings is to help other people in the same way I was helped, by passing it on. Passing it forward as someone says. It’s not easy for me, because by nature, I am self-focused. It takes a lot more effort for me to work for others than work for myself. But ultimately, the spiritual truth I discovered, that changed my life, is that when I do for others, I feel fullfilled. Many spiritual truths are paradoxical.
I have not become wise by thinking in my head about my ideas, but by looking back at the results of actions I have taken on behalf of others, even though I don’t generally “like” people. Another Paradox. I have only ever felt truly loved when I have done things solely for someone else, ignoring what I would prefer. For me, I have found love to be an action that generates an emotion. By putting someone else’s interests before my own, I am acting in love, and for whatever bizarre reason, I feel loved. Loved by God, or just loved, no person in particular is required.
This is when I discovered that feeling loved doesn’t come from outside of us, or from another person, it seems like a simple consequential feeling that comes from an action. It’s an internal deal, cause and effect, not mysterious. If love is an action, where you sacrifice something of yours for the benefit of someone else, then the feeling of love that results from that is something any of us can have. I think the statement that “Everyone wants to be loved” is true and therefore anyone can feel loved.
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