Renounce the Attachment to Materialism, Keep the Stuff
A spiritual person can harmoniously embrace the materialism of our world while renouncing personal materialism. Keep the nice cars, fancy homes, exotic vacations, and all the other riches to be enjoyed. Just recognize they are merely things that temporarily satisfy the ego, not the spirit.
Material possessions do not bring true joy or contentment to the soul, only passing gratification to the self-image. Attachment to such ego fulfilling symbols leaves us masking our own feelings of emptiness inside.
Grow spiritually by renouncing your attachment to materialism, reach the point where you know in your core that you are the same person - of the same value - with or without material things, and then enjoy them as pretty, comfortable things rather than as solutions.
posted by David Treanor @ 12:51 PM
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1 Comments:
Thanks for your intelligently written, insightful comments. I am in daily need of spiritual direction and spiritual connectedness and know that, for me, the spiritual path is the only way to peace and contentment. I particularly liked what you said about measuring ourselves by the exterior things. When we quiet the internal negative dialogue and replace it, thru meditation, with a peaceful core, our interior life becomes a place without judgments of ourselves and others.
I hope you will continue to deliver this important message.
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