“You were born with an in-built recognition of your own goodness. You were born with an inner recognition of your rightness in the universe. You were born with a desire to fulfill your abilities, to move and act in the world. Those assumptions are the basis of what I will call natural law.
“You are born loving. You are born compassionate. You are born curious about yourself and your world. Those attributes also belong to natural law. You are born knowing that you possess a unique, intimate sense of being that is itself, and that seeks its own fulfillment and the fulfillment of others. You are born seeking the actualization of the ideal. You are born seeking to add value to the quality of life, to add characteristics, energies, abilities to life that only you can individually contribute to the world, and to attain state of being that is uniquely yours, while adding to the value fulfillment of the world.”
2007-05-19 10:06:25 · 17 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I find this very enlightening, When a group of others can take so many things out of that saying , I think you have found your answer.
2007-05-19 10:14:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Egads. I think some of those statements are accurate, but some are not, for example, "born seeking to add value to the quality of life", it is a learned response to think that life needs you to add any thing to it, and a learned response for you to be told what "quality of life" even is.... and what does a baby know about "value fulfillment"??? I can buy the first part, as an instinctual thing, but the second part? What is this person on? Babies born seeking the fulfillment of others? They seek the fulfillment of thier tummies, the fulfillment of warmth, and the fulfillment of thier needs, the rest of that stuff is learned.... However I will buy the part about innate goodness, and a sense of inner recognition of your rightness in the universe, we wind up learning things that take us away from all that....
2007-05-19 19:26:57 · answer #2 · answered by beatlefan 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Most people are born with a tendency to take and destroy, but they learn better. You must learn to love, and it takes years and years. I don't think anyone is born with these qualities. Fulfillment sought by one just born is mere groping. All these qualities that these statements assign to everyone at birth must be cultivated and taught and practiced. I agree with the part about "born with a desire ...to move and act in the world." Also the "curious about yourself and your world." The other parts sound like some sort of projection of ideas of the educated onto the innocent, who know nothing of compassion and goodness.
2007-05-19 23:42:43 · answer #3 · answered by Black Dog 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sorry Sunman, I don't see any WTF's in there, it all looks good to me. However there are a couple of qualifiers :
1. The statements assume that the individual is beyond the barriers of the 'negative' perceptions, which is certainly the case for every 'entity' from the 'outside looking in' perspective, but I'm not so sure that that is the case for all, when looking from the 'inside looking out'.
2. The altruistic part at the end of the second paragraph is what many of us believe, but most ( I suspect ) are still lost in the fear of insufficiency. Only when all fear is overcome can we see that there is more than 'enough' for each of us, and start addressing the needs and desires of the many, particularly those less able to help themselves.
2007-05-19 21:50:44 · answer #4 · answered by cosmicvoyager 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe that we are born with the capacity to be all these things . The recognition of our abilities comes with growing, learning, experiencing, and maturing. We will seek our own fulfillments throughout our lifetimes. Adding and contributing to the quality of the world we live in should be something all people seek to do in their lifetimes.
2007-05-19 20:58:25 · answer #5 · answered by serenity 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's all good... all true.
..except that I would call it "eternal law" not natural law - but they're pretty much the same thing, anyway.
Also, not always obviously true... I think some babies/children are naturally more loving, compassionate, curious, teachable, trusting, etc, than others. Of course my OWN beautiful children fit that description... LOL.
It is important to recognise that some babies are jolted out of their naturally spiritual state a lot quicker, because the physical state is not-condusive to spirituality... for instance, foetuses that are addicted to the mother's drugs, or children who suffer extreme pain from reflux or intestinal colic. If you have ever been the carer of such children, you might not be so easily aware of their loving and trusting natures. Still, it is all there, underlying all the harsh things that life throws at us.
It's funny, we spend our childhoods longing to be wise like adults, then we have the rest of our lives to try and bring ourselves back to the spiritual state of childhood.
2007-05-19 19:00:17 · answer #6 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
To know, realise & sustain that we were born with these qualities, it needs deep levels of perceptions , to be maintained consciously with sharp awareness, or else, the 'naturally' dominating sense organs (needed for survival) would 'enmesh' us into forgetting our basic characteristics, and then we are trapped in the circle/cycle(shift of priorities, we may say) !
2007-05-22 21:11:00 · answer #7 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Physically speaking, everyone is correct in that many of these traits must be taught and learned... But, as these quotes dive much deeper than the physical realm, I only have three words to say....
I AM Love!
2007-05-21 13:11:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have lots of inventions and ideas that will greatly improve life what should I do with them?
2007-05-22 06:34:57 · answer #9 · answered by James 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The above is not all true. Think and study psychology. And sociology.
2007-05-19 17:12:47 · answer #10 · answered by hillbilly 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋