Living In A Spiritualized World » what do I live for?

Is Your Inner Clock Ticking?

Mikhail — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:20:14 +0000

About half of the U.S. public (49%) says they have had a religious or mystical experience, defined as a "moment of sudden religious insight or awakening." This is similar to a survey conducted in 2006 but much higher than in surveys conducted in 1976 and 1994, and more than twice as high as in a 1962 Gallup survey (22%). In fact, the 2009 Pew Forum survey finds that religious and mystical experiences are more common today among those who are unaffiliated with any particular religion (30%) than they were in the 1960s among the public as whole (22%).

According to kabbalists, a person constantly questions his goals, and the surfacing of all kinds of desires in him prompts changes in his life. However, all these desires and occurrences surface at the level of our world, and as such, are unrelated to spirituality. It could also be that this person starts worrying about the world to come, about what will happen to him after he dies, and thus starts noticing everything in the world as being illusive and transient, and that he’ll be left with nothing at the end of it… In either case, he is pursuing security, and religion offers him a reward for his efforts.

When the Point in the Heart Awakens

Wake In a Sweat Again, Another Day’s Been Laid to Waste

Mikhail — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:04:24 +0000

A thirsty man, holding in his hand a broken glass, must first repair the glass before he can fill it up and drink from it. He who feels the detachment from spirituality must first mend his bond with the Creator before he can receive the offered goods.

There is a root in the spiritual world for all that exists – a root that initiates and motivates our behavior, our thoughts, our emotions, and the various events we experience. Everything that we can possibly imagine.

Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHaHEk6l1c

The Question of Life And Death To All Answered At Last

Mikhail — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:31:43 +0000

Kabbalah deals with the question about the purpose of life. From a very young age man starts asking this question, but then forgets about it in the course of his life. Man cannot traumatize himself indefinitely with this unanswered question. The answer can be found only in one source – the wisdom of Kabbalah, which was available only to a chosen few throughout the centuries. Generations came and went, but only representatives of the last generations can receive the irrefragable answer to the most important question.

People, who very sharply feel this question, come to Kabbalah. They do not feel satisfied, filled in their daily life. They suffer neither manias, nor depressions – they simply cannot reach peace of mind in this life. Why? Kabbalah gives the answer to this question.

Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiKB-EqNTG0

Money and Success, I Don’t Complain About the Stress

Mikhail — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:29:58 +0000

Like all others, a man tries to be satisfied with what this world can provide, but to no avail. He sees how other people crave for riches and success, and realizes it is no more than just a game. He participates in these “games”, often not without success, but it brings him no satisfaction. Gradually, trying himself in this world, disappointed and disenchanted, man begins to feel that his soul demands a different kind of filling. Having at last received a desire for the spiritual, man feels that he can no longer fill himself with earthly pleasures and feels his life is empty. Then he begins to look for the way to fill a new, spiritual desire.

Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5w4DfUvdcw

Just to Live One Day In Those Shoes

Mikhail — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:16:51 +0000

Humankind is developing evolutionally starting from animal desires. Animal desires are desires of our body: for food, shelter, family, and sex. They all pertain to our body, and should we live outside of any society, or in the forest, we would still have these desires. The next stage of the development of the egoism is aspiration for wealth. Following this stage is the desire is for power, glory, and fame (combination of these). And finally, the desire that is the highest in our world, the desire for knowledge.

After having tried all these desires in the course of thousands of incarnations, after descending into our world thousands of times, a person reaches a state called recognition of Evil. In other words, each of us accumulates inner record which convinces us that nothing we do will give us pleasure.

Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JjC2nW61lU

Who Wants to Live Forever?

Mikhail — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:57:42 +0000

From generation to generation, our ego, our desire to ask questions—to understand why we are living, what we’re living for, why we struggle so much, why life is so hard, and who pulls the strings—grows. All these questions make us restless.

Until a person attains true perception and real existence; until he transcends the boundaries of his world, while still living on this Earth, he will be forced to reincarnate again and again in this world; until he attains existence within the full volume of the universe.

Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BApaVMqAVtc

You’ll Live With Me ’cause You Left Me No Choice

Mikhail — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:06:48 +0000

Just a quote:

“I can only describe it as there was a sense of separation from everybody and everything. I didn’t feel like I was part of my family, even though they were a loving family—they provided for and took care of and you know, tried to teach me the rules of life, so to speak—but I totally felt apart from them, and then, throughout any socialization process, I couldn’t connect so I needed to come up with something.

The only thing, the only solution I found that worked was alcohol, drugs; fell into that kind of thing in my teenage years and lost focus of career and anything like that. I lost relationships with my family; I lost opportunities, friends, you know, they said, “No, you’re just a little out of control.”

I just didn’t want to be here anymore. It was too painful to live so there was a choice to make, and I really didn’t make it. I just said I want to live, that was my choice really.”

Stay tuned. To be continued.

Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ghZBzv3TtA

So Now You Tell Me You Are Living In a Country Where Joys and Freedom They Can Not Be Tried

Mikhail — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:15:29 +0000

How can a person realize himself, if the surrounding society makes a monotonous puppet out of him?

The Creator could have set us up just like the animals and the beasts, but he did not do it to begin with, so that we would have to connect to a higher level, from which we would receive the strength and the understanding to establish the correct life among us, which would in turn provide us with the necessary knowledge, intelligence, understanding and ability to live in the Upper altruistic system above us, all of which would result in our attainment of something beyond our nature.

Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxwBglJC2E

Just Look Me In the Eyes And Say I’m Wrong, Now There’s Only Emptiness

Mikhail — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:30:58 +0000

As kids we ask ourselves: “What are we living for?”, but later on hormones ignited by adolescence suppress this question and the will to discover the meaning and the source of life. Our sexual and intellectual aspirations lead us away from the solution to this problem. Then it arises again to disturb us. Those, who can’t fill the emptiness and demand an urgent answer to that question, find Kabbalah or, rather, are led to it from above: the time of filling the human soul comes.

Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wws7mnMewPw

I Keep Looking at the Sky ‘Cause it’s Gettin’ Me High

Mikhail — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:55:42 +0000

We have spoken to different people, representatives of different civilizations, and I came to a solution that comfort is man’s inner perception. One can live in a golden cage and feel like he is in prison. And one can feel that “with one’s beloved, even a hut is heaven.” So, whether one has comfort or not, does not matter on its own.

For a modern person the state of comfort is the state of inner harmony, safety, equilibrium, knowledge, peace, mutual feelings, and warmth in relationships. This is the comfort that we strive to achieve. It does not matter what’s on the outside. At the end of one’s experience one understands that material attributes of existence do not mean anything.

Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k816dPQyPAM