Spiritual Hypochondriacs

[Guest guest]

A person whose attitude is one of care-free abandon, who doesn't

worry about what they should do, but rather just does what seems to

be efficacious at the time for THAT occasion, and then whether it

turns out well or otherwise has no recriminations or regrets... That

person is healthy in a spiritual way.

 

Those who are constantly mindful of their and others relationships to

whatever it is that they are in constant supplication or apprehension

are the spiritual equivalent of a hypochondriac. The problem is that

in spiritual hypochondria, there is no one who can help, for those

who are spiritual hypochondriacs believe themselves to be in favor

and anyone who would tell them to just drop all the bullshit

concerns, MUST be some kind of infidel.

 

 

********* James Allison aka ~~AllisonWonderland~~

 

 

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and

self-contain'd,

I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,

Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning

things,

Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of

years ago,

Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

 

******* Walt Whitman

[Guest guest]

> A person whose attitude is one of care-free abandon, who doesn't

> worry about what they should do, but rather just does what seems

to

> be efficacious at the time for THAT occasion, and then whether it

> turns out well or otherwise has no recriminations or regrets...

That

> person is healthy in a spiritual way.

 

The above sounds like Jeffery Dahmer, or Mother Theresa - I don't

think there is a corelation between being care-free and being

spiritual. Care-free can be careless.

 

>

> Those who are constantly mindful of their and others relationships

to

> whatever it is that they are in constant supplication or

apprehension

> are the spiritual equivalent of a hypochondriac. The problem is

that

> in spiritual hypochondria, there is no one who can help, for those

> who are spiritual hypochondriacs believe themselves to be in favor

> and anyone who would tell them to just drop all the bullshit

> concerns, MUST be some kind of infidel.

>

 

In Dark Times and with confused people, scripture can offer guidance

on what is right action, that is, action that produces as positive

an effect as possible. There is no harm in this. Granted, those who

indulge in self-righteousness are an infidel, no matter what side of

the argument they fall on.

 

Larry