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**Navzrrqt** · 01-10-2010, 07:39 PM

foosnik, that is an amazing, and inspiring story. your comment on death, i too agree with. i see no reason to leave my body yet. i am and want to make the absolute most of this life! in fact i am deliberately forgetting my age.

you're right, if your bored why live? it seems the longest lived and happiest people always have a new goal, a new challenge, a new adventure. it gives them a reason to live.

yeah it also brings them joy. i think people incarnate here for infinite different reasons but i think a big part of whatever reason you come for is to experience joy. when you are experiencing joy is when you are closest to god, imo.

and yeah, totally forget your age. break free of the mind frame or the matrix that we fall into when we are born here. it is never too late for anything. my mom is a shining example of this. she just fell in love and remarried at age 65 and is now writing and publishing children's books at age 70. she is youthful and boyant and is showing no signs of slowing.

this latest back packing trip freed me more than i had imagined it would. a big objective i had for the trip was to put god to the test. i broke my lease and took off with only a back pack full of cloths and a couple hundred dollars. and i said, "well god, i'm gonna need food for 3 months and we will see where i am gonna come out of this on the other end." and i was never hungry. i camped around. spent a lot of time in the keys and swam with the dolphins. i did odd jobs here and there and made some money along the way. but it showed me that all these spiritual principals seem to be true. there is no reason to worry because god will provide for you.

i also noticed that earlier in my life as i built and gained the material possesions that i wanted i also was building a lot of fear of losing it all. and stripping myself of everything felt so fresh and amazing. i am a changed man now because i will probably get all my material possesions back but i will no longer have fear of losing them all. because losing them all can be just as much fun as having them. if i lose everything in the future i will view it as an opportunity to go on another back packing trip or another adventure and start anew all over again.

and now me and this new friend are about to rent a warehouse to live in and start a business. i've always wanted to live in a warehouse since i saw the movie "big" with tom hanks. we are going to put a music studio in there, a skate ramp, a basket ball court, a trampoline and some other stuff.

your thread was particularly relative to me because i just turned 33 and decided to go for broke. i have been taking baby steps toward allowing these spiritual principals to take control over me and take control away from the grips of our fear based society. and i thought i had built enough faith to take a giant leap like this. it was a process for me though. i had to build that faith and trust over time. and i see now that each time certain seemingly disastrous situations arose in my life i emerged from them better off then before. and god put a step under my foot, just in time, whenever i felt like i was gonna fall.

i don't know about you all but for me the whole thing had to begin with just figuring out what i really wanted. i had to have a dream before i could make it become a reality. i grew up with cable television, video games, an addiction to fashion, recreational drugs and all sorts of distractions that kept me chasing after my next fix like a donkey chasing a carrot on a string. so i never really developed dreams for my future until i was around 30 years old. the chase for all the material, temporary satisfactions left me with more than one manic depression during which i made the most progress toward figuring out what was most important to me in life.

this quote from anne frank was particulary relevant to how i felt for a long time as i struggled to go against the main stream current of society and apply the spiritual tools and principals to my life that i have learned from this website and various other books:

and finally i twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what i would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. so i wish for you all to drop the "shoulds" that society or family says that you should be or do and find inside your heart what will bring you joy. i do believe that is all god really wants for his children. i leave you with a quote from henry david thoreau:

go confidently in the direction of your dreams! live the life you've imagined. as you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

01-10-2010, 07:39 PM	#1
Navzrrqt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 372 Senior Member	foosnik, that is an amazing, and inspiring story. your comment on death, i too agree with. i see no reason to leave my body yet. i am and want to make the absolute most of this life! in fact i am deliberately forgetting my age. you're right, if your bored why live? it seems the longest lived and happiest people always have a new goal, a new challenge, a new adventure. it gives them a reason to live. yeah it also brings them joy. i think people incarnate here for infinite different reasons but i think a big part of whatever reason you come for is to experience joy. when you are experiencing joy is when you are closest to god, imo. and yeah, totally forget your age. break free of the mind frame or the matrix that we fall into when we are born here. it is never too late for anything. my mom is a shining example of this. she just fell in love and remarried at age 65 and is now writing and publishing children's books at age 70. she is youthful and boyant and is showing no signs of slowing. this latest back packing trip freed me more than i had imagined it would. a big objective i had for the trip was to put god to the test. i broke my lease and took off with only a back pack full of cloths and a couple hundred dollars. and i said, "well god, i'm gonna need food for 3 months and we will see where i am gonna come out of this on the other end." and i was never hungry. i camped around. spent a lot of time in the keys and swam with the dolphins. i did odd jobs here and there and made some money along the way. but it showed me that all these spiritual principals seem to be true. there is no reason to worry because god will provide for you. i also noticed that earlier in my life as i built and gained the material possesions that i wanted i also was building a lot of fear of losing it all. and stripping myself of everything felt so fresh and amazing. i am a changed man now because i will probably get all my material possesions back but i will no longer have fear of losing them all. because losing them all can be just as much fun as having them. if i lose everything in the future i will view it as an opportunity to go on another back packing trip or another adventure and start anew all over again. and now me and this new friend are about to rent a warehouse to live in and start a business. i've always wanted to live in a warehouse since i saw the movie "big" with tom hanks. we are going to put a music studio in there, a skate ramp, a basket ball court, a trampoline and some other stuff. your thread was particularly relative to me because i just turned 33 and decided to go for broke. i have been taking baby steps toward allowing these spiritual principals to take control over me and take control away from the grips of our fear based society. and i thought i had built enough faith to take a giant leap like this. it was a process for me though. i had to build that faith and trust over time. and i see now that each time certain seemingly disastrous situations arose in my life i emerged from them better off then before. and god put a step under my foot, just in time, whenever i felt like i was gonna fall. i don't know about you all but for me the whole thing had to begin with just figuring out what i really wanted. i had to have a dream before i could make it become a reality. i grew up with cable television, video games, an addiction to fashion, recreational drugs and all sorts of distractions that kept me chasing after my next fix like a donkey chasing a carrot on a string. so i never really developed dreams for my future until i was around 30 years old. the chase for all the material, temporary satisfactions left me with more than one manic depression during which i made the most progress toward figuring out what was most important to me in life. this quote from anne frank was particulary relevant to how i felt for a long time as i struggled to go against the main stream current of society and apply the spiritual tools and principals to my life that i have learned from this website and various other books: and finally i twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what i would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. so i wish for you all to drop the "shoulds" that society or family says that you should be or do and find inside your heart what will bring you joy. i do believe that is all god really wants for his children. i leave you with a quote from henry david thoreau: go confidently in the direction of your dreams! live the life you've imagined. as you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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