08-08-2013, 04:38 AM
(08-08-2013, 04:22 AM)LionMonkey Wrote: Maximus.. I'm not sure what you mean by suppressing since it's not a feeling like that.. more like nurturing an energy inside my body...
Many of those famous people got shit-loads of haters and people that tried to bring them down, even family and friends. They've learned to keep their spark to themselves and do what's necessary to get their beliefs to a core-belief.
Change happens when you are inspired. The fire that inspiration creates is killed if you are telling people about your faith. Rather hold it to yourself and speak only to those who are sincerely curious and listens.
Most people don't want to open up their mind to be able to see something new and many of those aren't even aware of the fact that reality is subjective and that everyone has their own view on the world and are experiencing the world differently in each of their own ways.
It's just easier to stay that way. To be comfortable. To live the way it has always been. That's why I often speaks about doing what's uncomfortable.
I understand what you mean, believe me. I've had a hard battle all my life because my interests and tastes have never matched with anyone or they have pissed people off.
Eventually, I learned to stay inside myself, stay comfortable, and not be the shining light of "different" I could be.
I saw it as the world's loss and secretly hated other people because of it, but never took my own values as more inmportant than other people's.
Whenever we silence ourselves because it's "more comfortable" to do so, we lose the opportunity to show the world who we are.
My coach has told me that the facts when it comes to people are these:
30% will love you, 30% will hate you, and 30% won't care either way. (I didn't bother to tell him that's only 90%, but you get the idea).
So again, I understand the pain that can be had when you encounter people who don't agree, and I certainly don't push my beliefs. I do, however, have less and less reservations about showing who I really am, and not caring what others think of it.
(08-08-2013, 04:22 AM)LionMonkey Wrote: It's both scary and exciting to live this way but I often ask myself, "Isn't life not about this? About experiencing the world, that we are so fortunate to have, with all of our senses? About LIVING LIFE to the fullest?!"
Living life to the fullest can't happen if you have instances where you put a cap on yourself, imo.
(08-08-2013, 04:22 AM)LionMonkey Wrote: In this blind faith, you have a "glow".. like you are taken over by a greater force. Your authentic being.
Everything else are distractions the world have cut through to your mind. Distractions. Unnecessary BS.
Exactly. So wouldn't it be better to just leave the BS alone instead of leaving your core self alone when BS rears it's ugly head?