Do You Believe In Yourself? Don’t Ask Me
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Advice and asking others for answers seems to be the theme of the week for me. I sometimes visit a forum called Our Ultimate Reality. The subjects on this forum get pretty wild and abstract sometimes. This week one discussion has been about the origin of the universe. The discussion got into the void and randomness and order from chaos, etc. As I was reading a reply I said to myself Do I need an answer? Then it went to, why do we humans always need answers? Why do we ask questions? Why do we seek others advice? Is it to satisfy the mind’s need to box and categorize thoughts and concepts? The thread then changed to the subject of why we are constantly asking questions.
In 2003, after devouring any book or channel on spiritual awakening and enlightenment that I could find, I decided that was enough. I didn’t need any more validation that this stuff was real for me. As I have said, the message was always the same, just said in different words. It felt like my questions were answered and I had no need for any more answers.
This was a reply I made to another on the forum who had given me a theory about the origin of the universe.
Thanks for the interesting perspective. The vacuum effect creating energy. Well?
Like you say questions?
You know, I was reading that and I said to myself why do I care about this? What difference can it make to me or my understanding of anything.
It might a fun mental exercise but that’s all it is. A mental game and mental games for me are just that, games. I guess that’s what the human brain loves to do. It’s like any verbal communication or discussion on any concept, we seem to feel the need to satisfying the mind’s need to categorize, label and “make sense” of things.
The human mind loves to have the answers. Is there really answers? Why do we feel the need for them? The mind begs for a time line and a “how to” process to be satisfied, which as the questions get more abstract, the harder it is to do.
Like your story of you, the enlightened child, who dared to ask the tough question of Who made God? and got brushed aside because there was no answer that the priest could give.
We keep asking. I guess we just love the game huh?
Will we get to the point where we quit asking or feeling the need to have the answers?
I say yes.
Seth
This was a response to my post from Darrell, a person who has a perspective that I enjoy. He hit my theme of the week perfectly.
Hello Sethg,
Yes, we reach the point that we say - enough already.
I do love to learn new things though. I revel in the new dimensions of science’s ability to see deeper into our biology and farther into the Universe. I spend many hours reading and watching video’s of all this.
But as for spiritual books and such, I have had my fill. Being brought to the realization that I was spending my life learning how to live it, and thus, not living it at all.
Like the observer - they miss the point of their own life in the observation of others.
A dear friend of mine just recently wrote a book on spirituality, and she was very happy - yet when I read it I was left with the feeling ” how many times can we keep writing the same things? ” I read all this over thirty years ago.
Yes - there comes a time when we just need to get out there and feel it all and not care how - why - or if it is correct or not.
WithIN Love
Darrell
I just watched this video and it fit my theme. Buddha had some interesting things to say about advice and who to believe.
The answers are within us but we lack the trust in our ability to know that they are right for us. We love to give our power away to doctors and lawyers and counselors and spiritual gurus that we believe “know” so much more than us. Then of course we also give up our personal responsibility for the outcome.
It’s our mind’s thirst for answers combined with our lack of confidence in our power to have them already that keeps us asking. Who knows what’s right for us other than us.
How can I give you advice? I haven’t lived your life. I can’t know your feelings. Only you can. You have the answers within. We just have to listen and trust. When we incorporate that trust in our being then the need to ask someone else for the answers.
This was my last reply.
“Living instead of learning” Yes Darrell, I think it is a natural progression when we harmonize the aspects of self, when the mind relinquishes it grip on constantly “needing” to have the answers, that it will bring the end to our incessant questioning and seeking answers outside our selves. Or the need to question at all.
And then the whole concept of need for every part of life just fades away.
Seth
It’s is time for me believe in myself instead of needing advice from others. Time to end the constant seeking for truths and answers and live the ones I already have.
Now it is on to the next theme. “What is a real man?”
Stay tuned …
Another post I read yesterday that added to my “theme of the week.”
It’s from NAB - Oprah Was Wrong
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Rudolf Steiner used the concept of “in-breath” and “out-breath” in designing and creating the Waldorf School pedagogy. Essentially, each day/season/year has its own inward time and outward time. This manifests quite obviously in the seasons; spring and summer are out-breaths and autumn and winter are in-breaths.
Each person, each lifetime, has its own in-breath and out-breath.
I am thinking that the process of accumulating/gathering spiritual material simply serves as one part of the overall process. What comes next is the out-breath, the utilization of all that wonderfulness you’ve accumulated. You put it to practice and as a result find your own way. I see this time and again in person after person. Sure, some continue “seeking” indefinitely, but most find a more contemplative way to finally use (or not) all that information.
Hi NAB
Makes sense. I noticed an ebb and flow from 2000-03 where I would gorge on info like crazy then slow down. In-breath and out-breath. I described it at the time as an ebb and flow but same concept.
Since 03 it has been even for me. I like to believe I’m living not looking anymore.
Thanks for the insightful comment(I really don’t like calling you “bitch”)
Hello Seth,
I have been questioning everything as long as I could remember. Even as a child, my first memory I could remember asking questions. To this day no matter what I ask, I always find an answer that fits my perspective at that time. As I grow consciously, the answer no longer fits with my new awareness based on my new found experiences and another answer comes.
However, when I listen to the inner voice, intuition, higher self, etc (whatever you desire to label it)… the answer is always the same! I was just not ready to hear it until I reached the point where I could accept it.
In my experience people do not fear the unknown (nothing is truly unknown to them), they fear remembering what they already know. Detracting questions are their way of NOT finding the answer.
Yet, when your have had enough of this game and you become frustrated, then perhaps the real questions start to form and the real answers begin to reveal themselves. Like Tony Robins says: “Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.” and as Albert Einstein said: “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”…
Indeed there is a time when questions become a bore, this is usually the time when you are preparing yourself for the answers within.
Everything in life is a process of growth through experience. Every human being who has ever been on this plant, who is here now, and who ever will be here, will go through a process of grow. Even the most enlightened soul you can think of (most people refer to a soul named Jesus [even took him 30 years to reach the point he did], but it does not matter who you refer to, the answer is still the same), will have to go through a process of growth because this is what life is all about. Anything does not grow or provide a purpose (for long brief of time) will parish.
There is no such thing as being fully enlightened, since the moment you reach that stage, you will there will be a brighter light (en-light) to help you see another stage. In other words, the more answers you find, the more questions you will see. Hence, no matter what goal you achieve, you will always be able to find a higher goal to fulfill you. The wonder of this purpose, is that it is infinite, just like you.
Thank you for this article, it has helped me to understand certain phases in my life. You are an insightful being Seth!
Have a Consciously Flexing day,
~Nicholas Powiull @ Conscious Flex
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In the case of everyday advice - I completely agree with you, that many of us keep turning to others for answers and solutions and then what is worse we get mad at those people when their answers and solutions do not work in our lives. If we only looked inside and trusted, that would be a whole other story…
As for seeking answers on the higher level, while I cannot disagree that all of the answers are still within us, I don’t think it hurts to look around a little too (within reason of course).
We do know and have everything we need to know within us, sometimes I think, we just need a little nudge, a little reminder from an outside source because let’s face it, many of us live on this Earth as if in some drone - brain washed state which is for some hard to snap out of.
You got me to reflect on my own life too, as I read this post…I used to live knowing there was more to the patterns and the routines and then one day thanks to a book (Conversations with God) I got my little nudge that woke me right up to who I really am and to seek from within. It isn’t that I believed the words of that book as my new found wisdom, but that I was able to “feel” and conceptualize a little better what I had already been living and it allowed me to raise my awareness of self higher.
So yeah, today, even though I do not seek outside answers with wild passion, I still enjoy the odd book or video that continues to remind me of my true essence.
P.S. What a cute pic and great video too!
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Wow Nicholas
That was a post in itself and some great points. I totally agree that we are always changing. i call it change not necessarily growth. Change is the only constant with all things.
My point about questioning was that it is a practice of the mind. Does my spirit need to question? Yes the human needs to question not only others but mainly our selves. I may differ with you on the idea that questioning equals growth. And the circle of life is growth and then returning back to source.
Thanks for the added perspective
Seth
Evita
This post kind of went off in two directions and probably should have been two posts. One about us not trusting our selves and the other about our mind’s need to question.
Also when I say advice I mean it in the broadest sense on important personal topics that only we can know the answers to. Not things like “how to copy and paste code” etc. The big questions, where we as humans love to illicit “expert” advice on major life decisions thereby giving our power and the responsibility away to them.
By combining two topics in one post I short changed an explanation of my perspective on both of them.
I’m pretty lucky to have such gentle commentators like you and Nicholas
The more I read, the more I am enjoying your blog Seth. Another insightful post which leaves room for thought and much contemplation.
My addition and thoughts on this is that I think we forget to stop and *listen*. To our selves, to what’s going on around us. We are too busy in the now, questioning, seeking, yearning, doing. I find it very difficult to just STOP and listen, contemplate, reflect. I agree that one needs to just BE, and not focus all energy the external stuff. Remember the adage, “Don’t think, just do”? There’s too much doing goin on!
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