Spirituality
This is Kevin Kelly.
The close friend Tim Ferriss goes to for advice.
He taught him a philosophy for life that made Tim stop giving a f*ck.
Here's the philosophy: https://t.co/HKFbx4mkXs
“The will of God is not a ‘fate’ to which we must submit, but a creative act in our life that produces something absolutely new, something hitherto unforeseen by the laws and established patterns. Our cooperation consists not solely in conforming to external laws, but in opening our wills to this mutually creative act.”5
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
“If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own.”
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
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The Four Laws Of Spirituality
/ Trust / By Trustful Mind
In India, Four Laws of Spirituality are taught:
The first law says:
“The person who comes to your life is the right person.”
No one comes to our life by chance, all the people who surround us, who interact with us, who we encounter, are there for a reason.
The second law says:
“What happens is exactly what’s supposed to happen.”
Nothing, absolutely nothing that happens in our lives could have happened in any other way. Not even the most insignificant detail. There is no: “If I hadn’t done this thing then, this other thing would’ve not happened… “. No. What happened was exactly what’s supposed to happen, and it had to be that way so we could learn the necessary lessons and move forward.
The third law says:
“Any time you start, is the right time.”
It all starts at the right time, not before, not after. When we are ready for something new to begin in our lives, it will begin.
And the fourth and last law says:
“When something ends, it ends.”
Just like that. If something ended in our lives, it was for our own good, so it’s better to leave it there and move on, already enriched with that experience.
I do not think it is a coincidence you are reading these four laws of spirituality right now. If this text reaches your life today, it is because you are prepared to understand that no snowflake ever falls into the wrong place!
We are typically invited into new stages of life. Only after many refusals are we dragged. There seems to be so little resistance, in nature—it’s almost as though we’ve come to believe that we are separate to it, perhaps in the hope that we might somehow escape our ultimate destiny.
We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it. The gospel is totally counterintuitive, it isn’t what we think it should be.
Brene Brown • Brené with Father Richard Rohr on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, Part 1 of 2
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