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What Emotion is Trump?

Posted on by under developing awareness, simple spiritual insights

Spirit patiently listens to my complaints about some

personal relationships. Why? I ask, do some relationships

Seem to be charged with emotion beyond what could

possibly make sense, at least to me.

 

Life, He tells me, is like a game of cards.

We each play as well as we can with

the cards we have been dealt. When we

Play a kindness card, we expect the other

Player or players to pay an equal or higher

Kindness card.

 

But, that doesn’t always happen. Why would,

As they sometime do, play an anger card when

 A kindness card is seemingly called for?

 

What emotion is trump?

 

Compassion?

 

Love..

 

When to resist temptation, and when not to

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Spirit tells me that resisting temptation is, or can be

Habit-forming and a source of self-satisfaction,

Unless we resist temptation solely for the sake of

Resisting temptation, in order to receive

Blessings from Heaven. In such a case, He tells me

(as if I didn’t know), no great benefit would be earned.

 

Pleasures are or can be blessings to ourselves,

As a token of self-love. And, He tells me, we

Would be incapable of loving anyone or

Anything (for those who might consider God as a

Thing) if we cannot, for whatever reason,

Love ourselves, whom God loves dearly.

 

 

Life is incomplete and non-linear

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Spirit tells me that all stories are necessarily incomplete and

Non-linear, when they attempt to accurately describe life

 

But, I was young, once, and now I am not. Surely that is

A case for linear development.

 

Did you grow in equal proportions during each segment of

Your so-called linear life?

 

No. Babies grow faster, doubling their birth weight in a few months.

 

So much for linear growth.

 

Perhaps linear growth could refer to stages of

Development.

 

Are stages of growth, or development

Of equal time duration for all people and

Other life forms?

 

Why would stages of growth have to be of

Equal time duration to be linear?

They could have a certain sequential order

Within a linear framework.

 

Explain, if you can.

 

You’re asking me to explain? What?

 

Linear development.

 

How can I explain it to you?

 

Then, explain it to yourself and I’ll listen in.

 

I’m on slippery ground.

 

Yes.

 

But, if we do not develop within a linear

Framework, then how do we?

 

How do we what?

 

Develop.

 

In what way?

 

Are we going in circles?

 

No.

 

Then what?

 

Cycles.

 

Suffering

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Spirit asks me, What is it that we want

More than anything else?

I don’t know.

Then you need more suffering.

As punishment for not knowing?

No. As experience.

Why would I want to experience

Suffering? I thought freedom from

Suffering was the highest goal.

Freedom from suffering is not a

Goal in itself but a means

to an end.

What end?

Compassion and love.

 

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When we love what we are doing

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Spirit tells me that

When we are doing what we love and

Love what we are doing, then

There is a two-way flow

Of energy, loving energy, because

Satisfaction flows back.

 

The financial bottom line is,

For so many, the only

Definition of success.

 

Spirit tells me that

Everyone experiences suffering

Of one kind or another, and

We all struggle with situations

That are, or seem to be,

Totally beyond our control, but,

How we respond to difficult people,

Or situations, makes a difference

In how they affect us,

Long term.