Inner Nature

[Lightkeeper]

From the Tao of Pooh

Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

Do you know your inner nature? How do you get in touch with it? Do you agree with the above statement?

[Geshtinnanna]

I believe in this greatly. How do I know my inner nature? When I am at peace. When we do something that is not in our nature to do, well we suffer. Take my faith. I suffered trying to believe in God. Just wasn't going to happen for me. Inside I had no connection at all. Finally I stopped suffering when I accepted I was not a believer and was not going to be any time soon. We all know our own voice. Maybe we don't always listen, but we know it when we finally do. I am who I am. I cannot be anything other than who I am. There is a nice and peacefull acceptance of that. I wear no shame in it. How could I be anything but me?

[pinski]

Originally Posted by Lightkeeper

Do you know your inner nature? How do you get in touch with it? Do you agree with the above statement?

Q.- Do you know your inner nature?
A.- Yes, I do.
Q.- How do you get in touch with it?
A.- I am an Inseparable part of It. It is the Reality, It is Me.
Q.- Do you agree with the above statement?
A.- I can agree with "Wrong Job" and "Wrong House", but I do question "Wrong Marriage" Idea.

If we were talking about "wrong marriages" as the relationships were people "don't have a lot in common", then hear me out, please.

There are no "wrong relationships" (in the sense I will explain later), there are people who call it "wrong" in order to justify they "escapes", in order to justify their lack of Spirits, Reasons, Understanding of True Love and Commitment, in order to disguise and support "laziness".

Those people who become "initiators" of heart breaking destructions of their families on the reasons of selfishness like: nothing in common, boring, not interesting, I am not been appreciated, sex life is not good, not attractive any longer, accidental physical or mental disability, his/her family don't respect me enough, I want to try something new because I'm getting old fast etc., etc.,are not "suffering", in the reality, they make their spouses and related to the situation people "suffer".

The initiators use a term "to suffer" in order to create an justify "BLAME"; in order to convince themselves in something that is not True, in order to "crash" the Creation of a Marriage with as less damage to themselves as possible.

I am not talking about Marriages were mental or physical abuse is present.

with love and respect,

A.Pinski

[Rolling_Stone]

Geez...it's been ages since I read that book.

Everything has its place, but I see the rest that particular quote as a restatement of "know thyself." It's difficult to do, if not impossible. If it's possible, it's difficult because nothing is more difficult to see than the perceptions through which we see...and we don't really know ourselves until we know how we see. If it's impossible, it's impossible for the same reason the eye cannot see itself.

There might be a third alternative: self-acceptance and self-knowledge are one and the same.

[ShyLady]

Originally Posted by Geshtinnanna

I believe in this greatly. How do I know my inner nature? When I am at peace. When we do something that is not in our nature to do, well we suffer. Take my faith. I suffered trying to believe in God. Just wasn't going to happen for me. Inside I had no connection at all. Finally I stopped suffering when I accepted I was not a believer and was not going to be any time soon. We all know our own voice. Maybe we don't always listen, but we know it when we finally do. I am who I am. I cannot be anything other than who I am. There is a nice and peacefull acceptance of that. I wear no shame in it. How could I be anything but me?

I have always know that I believe in God, and felt that God has always been with me. It has always been people who have made my life misserable. Especially if I only tried to live my life making other people happy, even when I came to God I was always tryin' to please others and be like others. It has taken me so long just to come to the truth that God has always wanted me to come to, that I only need to depend on myself and be myself for Him. Thats the way he wants me as myself, not an imagined way I think I should be.