RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
March 24, 2013 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2013 at 12:03 am by jstrodel.)
No, now that I am a Christian I feel like I don't have any part of me that is left and my self respect comes exclusively from my union with God. I feel like I am a dead person. It feels good. It is not like being narcissistic. I feel like there is no self to pump up.
It feels good. Have you ever any books by Watchmen Nee? He talks about the breaking of the outward man, where through suffering and the inner working of the holy spirit the outward man is crushed so the spirit can be released. The release of the spirit is like when people hearts become dis-unified from their self and they start to think spiritually and their mind separates from their spirit. I would highly recommend the book, it is very challenging and I have hardly lived up to the principles.
I am an admirer of asceticism and wish I could be more deeply committed to it. I have visited monasteries and found the beauty and simplicity of life in the spirit, free from the arrogance of all the people fighting and shouting and all the selfish hearts full of emptiness and greed, just a desire to empty the self so it can be a vessel for the glory of God, that everything around be unified with the telos of man and the telos of nature, not the nature of capitalism and politics and war but the nature of the quietness of the soul directed to God with simple words, not complicated words, not aiming to prove anything just conveying the spirit, shedding the carnal, empty mind and breaking the chains off of it that bind it to worldly ideologies and ambitions of small men and opening the eyes to see the beauty and glory and splendor of a life in harmony and peace.
Have you ever been to a monastery before? I would recommend it.
It feels good. Have you ever any books by Watchmen Nee? He talks about the breaking of the outward man, where through suffering and the inner working of the holy spirit the outward man is crushed so the spirit can be released. The release of the spirit is like when people hearts become dis-unified from their self and they start to think spiritually and their mind separates from their spirit. I would highly recommend the book, it is very challenging and I have hardly lived up to the principles.
I am an admirer of asceticism and wish I could be more deeply committed to it. I have visited monasteries and found the beauty and simplicity of life in the spirit, free from the arrogance of all the people fighting and shouting and all the selfish hearts full of emptiness and greed, just a desire to empty the self so it can be a vessel for the glory of God, that everything around be unified with the telos of man and the telos of nature, not the nature of capitalism and politics and war but the nature of the quietness of the soul directed to God with simple words, not complicated words, not aiming to prove anything just conveying the spirit, shedding the carnal, empty mind and breaking the chains off of it that bind it to worldly ideologies and ambitions of small men and opening the eyes to see the beauty and glory and splendor of a life in harmony and peace.
Have you ever been to a monastery before? I would recommend it.