When you give someone else what he or she needs, in doing it, you instill part of yourself in the other person. As the other person receives, it begins to build in him or her the understanding that giving to others is good, valuable, and - most importantly - pleasurable. In time, the giver begins to feel that it is not the giving to others that is pleasurable but the giving in itself, the state of being a giver(as the Creator), contains something pleasurable. If you think about it for a moment, you'll see that nothing, even in our physical world, is created without giving. How can creatures be born without their parents' giving? Newborns are born because their parents love them and want to give to them, even before they come into existence. So we are all interconnected by giving.
The only one thing we have to understand: the giving is pleasurable.
This reminds me of something I've just read.
"Everything is cyclical. It's like a two-headed snake. One head consumes while the other regurgitates that which has been digested and consumed."
The theory behind this, yet just a theory, is that behind Black Holes are White Holes. Universes are digested and new universes are created. It is the same with our cells, births, deaths, and seasons. All is interconnected. Everything affects everything else. So, it is best to create the positive, I.E, love, and share it for the best results. It is very much true on all levels such as the micro and macro. It's everywhere.
giving is pleasurableYes, it truly is, and not for the rewards you may want to achieve, because that is not true giving. It is selfish and will not yield the positive results as expected.
Saying something is "just a theory" betrays a slight ignorance of the term's true usage. That the earth is round is a "theory," for example.
Be sure you qualify yourself when you use the term. Because to describe something as just a theory undermines our ability to determine truthful theories using empirical research. Usually when someone says "just a theory" to describe something that could be true but we can't know currently, "hypothesis" would work better.
Tell that to Einstein. Other scientists tried to discredit him and he was beyond his time. Now I understand that some of his theories had holes in them, but as a whole, they were true and proven, though he was thought of as somewhat a quack in the scientific community............They didn't understand it at the time though, yet do so today. That doesn't mean everything he said was complete just as with every scientific mind. Sometimes it is assessed later, understood and given their due.
Originally posted by Daylan.O
I believe that that who we are is not defined by the things that happen to... But how we deal with them, it develops character so that we can shape our selves to be our own character .... But what do o know, I'm a ignorant, naive teenager
the way we deal with things is defined by what things happen to us.
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Nothing makes you happy; you choose to be happy because a set of conditions have been met. You can choose to be happy, even if these conditions have not been met. It is simply not what we have been told all of our lives. Ultimately you are responsible for the amount of happiness in your life. You can raise or lower the bar for what ever reason you wish.
Happiness has nothing to do with what happens to you or what is met.
I have known people with very little and they are content, seen people with a lot and they are not happy at all.
I agree, my greatest losses, I was happy to have the opportunity, realize that its just an experience and more often in life you are not going to get what you want. Of course, being reckless and impulsive will cause problems of consternation. It's that fine line of assertivenesss and agressiveness that causes people to help you or dessert you.
Agree that we have been conditioned to see things by a set of conditons.
In the last 3 years I have lost just about everything important to me.
And it is scary, but at the same time, there is a reason why people of the past, are not part of the present. Usually many.