Words of Wisdom

This great man was called Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist, Jesuit priest, born in France in 1891 and died in 1955. Here is one of his brilliant writings:

> Religion is not just one, there are hundreds.
>Spirituality is one.
>Religion is for those who sleep.
>Spirituality is for those who are awake.
>Religion is for those who need someone to tell them what to do and want guidance.
> Spirituality is for those who pay attention to their inner voice.
>Religion has a set of dogmatic rules.
>Spirituality invites us to reason about everything, to question everything.
>Religion threatens and scares.
>Spirituality gives inner peace.
>Religion talks about sin and guilt.
>Spirituality says: “Learn from error”.
>Religion represses everything and in some cases it is false.
>Spirituality transcends everything, it brings you closer to your truth!
>Religion speaks of a god; it is not God.
>Spirituality is everything and therefore it is in God.
>Religion invents.
>Spirituality finds.
>Religion does not tolerate any questions.
>Spirituality calls everything into question.
>Religion is human, it is an organization with human rules.
>Spirituality is Divine, without human rules.
>Religion is a cause of divisions.
>Spirituality unites.
>Religion is looking for you to believe.
>Spirituality must be sought in order to believe.
>Religion follows the precepts of a sacred book.
>Spirituality seeks the sacred in all books.
>Religion feeds on fear.
>Spirituality is nourished by trust and faith.
>Religion lives in the lower astral.
>Spirituality lives in consciousness.
>Religion takes care.
>Spirituality is linked to Being.
>Religion feeds the ego.
>Spirituality pushes us to transcend.
>Religion makes us abandon the world to follow a god.
>Spirituality makes us live in God, without abandoning ourselves.
>Religion is a cult.
>Spirituality is meditation.
>Religion fills us with dreams of glory in heaven.
> Spirituality makes us experience glory and paradise here and now.
> Religion lives in the past and in the future.
> Spirituality lives in the present.
> Religion creates cloisters in our memory.
> Spirituality frees our consciousness.
> Religion makes us believe in eternal life.
> Spirituality makes us aware of eternal life.
> Religion promises life after death.
> Spirituality promises to find God within us during life and death.

Modern society has conditioned you to desperately seek approval and acceptance from others

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Carnivores,

Modern society has conditioned you to desperately seek approval and acceptance from others.

Most people optimize their lives based on what others might think or say about who they are and what they do. Their only lever of satisfaction becomes outside approval. To be content with themselves happens only if others are content with them. 

If you are constantly seeking validation from others, you are letting others define who you are. If others think you are great, you will think you are great. If others think you suck, you will think you suck.

Imagine what a never ending battle that is. Your life literally becomes a spectator sport. You lose perspective on your sense of worth and leave it in the hands of people who likely don’t even care about you. You start doing things borne from speculation about how others might react to the things you do. Every action you take is to maximize acceptance and validation…. So much so that you’d rather be wrong with the crowd than right by yourself. 

Rid yourself of this mind virus. Break free and relish in your independence.

Put yourself first. If you constantly seek validation as a source of your self-satisfaction, you will devolve into a people pleaser always putting others before yourself. How can you realize your full potential if you never give yourself the opportunity to understand or discover who you actually are, how you actually feel, and what you actually think?

This is your life. Live it for yourself, not on behalf of others. Who gives a sh*t what others think? Your sense of worth starts from within. You are an individual. You are independent. You have the genes of a warrior destined to conquer.

Transcending the need for external approval starts from within. Don’t listen to other people’s expectations. Live up to your own expectations. Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop looking around you for validation. Be harder on yourself than the world is on you. Your independence will radiate and validation from others (or lack thereof) will become a mere byproduct of living your life the way you’ve chosen to live it.