What aspect of yourself would you like to develop the most?

Mine:

My grounding.

My ability to love myself more.

To reduce my tendency to feel guilt.

Through unselfish love one is forced to render unselfish services towards others (towards humanity) which is also the form of sacrifice because the selfishness is sacrificed when unselfish love develops.

To be less in the brain and more in the heart. And also, to be more honest - no lie at all.

This is the perfect question for me right now. I just had the realization--even in the presence of great gifts, great love, great profundity, great movement, great just about everything--Life itself is dry without kindness directed inward.

Love burns, joy spins crazily, growth dizzies, understandings are meaningless without the quality of kindess towards the "self." Without the space, the allowance of process and of dips and increases of understanding, without moisture of this specific kind of love, nothing else can apply fully, or be used, or be accessed in it's actual help.

Without kindness, I am required to go too fast, I am required to already "know," I am required to be perfect and not receive any reward, I am required to "spit it out," whether "it" be: money, love, time, wisdom, or even kindness towards others. This can only be done so long without running out energy.

I think receiving kindness must be a clearer way of perceiving God..it's mercy, it's understanding, it's Grace. Maybe it's the pipeline (at least for me) to Gratitude. Demanding kindess is the wrong path; it doesn't work and it takes you down (way down!). But receiving kindness from Self first and God and then maybe fellow man and creature...I think (because I have not yet experienced) I think it must be the best way to appreciate God, to experience life.

i.e. less affected by desires and fears

Peace of mind, of course.

And also the capacity to accept of whatever happens.

And I suspect that they relate very strongly to each other.

Bhagat kabir wrote in one of qoutes:

Fill the accout of your life time, with the name of "God", Ahh... its free of cost, otherwise --- at the time of your death you will miss this a lot. -Sayeth Kabir.

So, jasdir, want's to try this.

_/\_Jasdir.

Why should anyone want to only develop a part of themselves, I want to develop me so completely that I can recognize every attribute in myself that I find in any others. In my opinion that is what's required to reach the kingdom within that's commonly called enlightenment.

--Elijah "NatureBoy"--
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http://prop1.org/protest/elijah/nature.htm