Why when it comes to our everyday lives do we run behind things and hide insted of being a light to the world?
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They are very positive thoughts.  Sounds like you were feeling really good and powerful when you wrote them.  When you are not feeling so enthusiastic, its nice to know that God asks us just to do the best we can.\nThere is a whole community out there and God has given us lots of time, so one good step at a time is more my motto.
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Maybe because they have no illusions. they see themselves as they ARE, those around them as THEY are, or the WORLD as it is. For rational people it is hard to find comfort in the way the world is today, though it is best to accept what is and do the best one can. No?
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yes I do at times... it is normal... \nthere are lot of things in our day-to-day life that we dont take care of but some things we take too much to our mind and are unable to get that out of our mind... if we are unable to get the answer for it we try to find thru all possible routes... this is where the problem rises... \nknowingly or unknowingly we tend to do what we ourself dont want to do...
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What better justification is there than to allude to a higher power having made you to do something instead of just taking responsibility for your own words and actions.  That burns me up.  Hiding behind a God or a Deity figure to conveniently absolve yourself so that you can "pretend" to yourself and the rest of the world that you're not culpable.
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The bible says that we are to be a light to the world...love everybody and be who you are supposed to be
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It is in the human nature to adjust to the circumstances as best as they can and fight back relentlessly. We may be facing doom but hey, we like to believe in miracles. We always hope that something may eventually turn up and help us.
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I belive that respect is the ultimate key to all.  How you are at night has nothing to do with what u do in the day.. but some people cant seperate those 2 things-
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We're human, we are bound to hide in some way.  Either to hide our personality flaws or to hide physical deformity of some sort.  Does anyone know everything in our heart?  Some overcompensate and are boistrous and loud to hide insecurities, some are indifferent and unresponsive because they shut themselve out from the world so they don't get hurt.  Some seem real but are really a shell.  People are meant to adapt.  We change depending on who we are with, where we are, and how comfortable we feel. Everyone wears a mask, even the one who answer these questions.
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.\n\nWe ask ourselves “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.\n\nWe are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.\n\nAnd as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."\n\nDont let anything hold you back :)
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I think that as we become more open-minded to other ideas, etc. we're more willing to accept others' ways of life. We eventually see these everyday things as "not so bad" because we finally took time to examine them, and probably learned that others look at our everyday happenings in a similar light.\n\nFor instance, look at the "holiday season." I celebrate Christmas but not Kwanzaa nor Hanukkah, but I have absolutely no problem with those who celebrate one or more of the other late-year holidays. Why should I have an issue with it? They're not hurting me in any way, and I'm not hurting them. "Live and let live."
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And why do you worry about them? Are you hiding something?
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it's because sometimes we see ourselves less than others...
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Its dark in your world, isn't it?  :-)
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When we are not living to our highest potential or living our own spiritual truth, only identifying ourselves to that which is 'outside' of ourselves, then yes we are absolutely deceiving ourselves.\n\nSelf deception is not something we consciously wake up to every day and decide 'today I will deceive myself'...however, this is what we subconsciously do.  We do this by not owning what is ours to own as in our emotional state of mind or what we are creating that may not serve self or others around us.  If we are coming from our ego centres rather than our soul self, we are creating more dilemias for ourselves as what we entrust into our ego almost always is not what we actually want.  But we do it anyway.  Why?  Because we live in 'fear mode' the mode that creates lack and removes any form of abundance in our lives.  Why?  Because we do not believe that it could be possible that there is a higher power within us, and due to our lack of faith in this area we will try to resist whatever it is we are trying to resist, and when we do that....it persists.  Then we sit back and say see 'I knew it wouldn't happen'.  But what is actually happening is the Universes way of opening our awareness up to our souls truth.  Until we do this we will continue to deceive ourselves and others believing all the while we are living 'the truth'.  The truth is we can only live our own truth.  To find it one must go within for do to otherwise merely means one does go 'without'.  \n\nThose that sit there in that 'space' and say words to the effect of 'theres not enough', 'it will never happen' and believe in poverty and terror will only receive more of what they believe.  What we think creates our reality.  Our life is our own illusion that we create for ourselves.  We are in dillusion to think that we are unable to change the way we are or the way we think.  Change is right here and now.  Today we can make the choice to change that which no longer serves our highest potential and learn to relinquish what has out worn its use-by-date.  Everything we 'see' is replaceable.  Nothing is mean't to be 'forever' and that includes what we are, not 'who' we are, as 'who we are' is always eternal.\n\nThe moment we embrace the 'truth' of another....we begin our journey into self deception.  The real truth of who and what you are lies in the connection you have, that invisible connection we have to the Divine Power, our Universal Creator.  This connection has never been severed and it is time for those of us whom feel 'deceived' to do the inner work on self, heal the inner self and take your place which is rightfully yours to have as an eternal soul spirit.  Your own soul knows your own truth and will deliver your truth once to start working with your soul self.  Soul Self is not dillusional only our Ego Self is.\n\nOur thoughts create our reality.  If we want to change our reality, we have to change the way we 'think about it'.  Believing is seeing, not seeing is believing.  That is what 'Faith' is all about.  It is all in the 'knowing'.  When we 'awaken' to this inner knowing, which I refer to as our awareness to our internal connection to the Divine Source, we realise we are not alone.  We deceive ourselves by buying into other peoples belief systems, not really ever forming our own ones.  Our own belief system is what sits with you, assimiliates with you, blends with you and our natural energy vibrations.  Our 'body' will tell us through 'feeling'.  \n\nDo you truly 'feel' you are living your souls truth? Or do you 'know' you are living the truth of another perceived by 'them' as 'The Truth' but continue to be in 'allowance' of this? Who is the driver in your seat?  You or someone else?  Self deception is not something we are always consciously awar
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It's our nature as human beings to be trapped in the perspective of our own tiny sliver of reality. Humanity as a whole has great difficulty stepping back and seeing the bigger picture.
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Unfortunately, people often do not think of all of the bad situations in the world because they are not in that situation or are not confronted with it on a daily basis.
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They dont like the light. They run twards you to get into your shadow or under your feet