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Here is a message that I have just come across that I would like to share with you.
“Please remember,
that no-one in the history of the
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Today I would like to share with you an intriguing and interesting belief that I’ve come across as I read as part of my personal growth and self-improvement.
The concept I would like to introduce is a that of Maat.
The ancient Egyptians believed that the universe was created in a state of Maat - perfect order or truth.
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A significant part of expanding your self through personal growth is being different.
The urge to conform is strong in most people, but if society was made up completely of conformists wouldn’t life be very dull?
To be genuinely different and original is a gift to treasure in ourselves and others.
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I came across this interesting and amusing summary of life.
On the first day, The Creator created the dog and said:
‘Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.’
The dog said: ‘That’s a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?’
So The Creator agreed.
Happiness, Health, Personal Development, PhilosophyReading time: < 1 minute
This is alight hearted view of what could happen in the future to Christmas and the Spirit of Christmas
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The jigsaw puzzle of modern life is complex, and the discussion group in Cambridge included people of a number of different cultures and nationalities. In view of this, it might be expected that there would be quite a diverse and lengthy list of potential ‘external’ obstacles to achievement of our purpose.
Factors such as lack of financial resources were mentioned, as were societal and family pressures, and these can certainly be important in affecting our actions.
But the greatest discussion was about things much closer to home: Ourselves.
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At the Raja Yoga workshop I attended a few weeks ago in Cambridge, one of the activities for the two small discussion groups was to consider the following questions:
i) What is the purpose of life?
ii) What are the obstacles which get in the way (or might do so)?
iii) What are possible solutions which may allow these obstacles to be overcome?
These are big questions, and perhaps there are no easy answers. I’ll be writing about the obstacles and possible solutions in later posts to this blog, but for now I’ll just address the first question: What is the purpose of Life?
Philosophy, Universal Laws
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