Today I had the most amazing Ah-Ha. You spend time wondering & wondering then suddenly the total understanding just drops in to your consciousness complete. What was your most recent or life changing Ah-Ha. Thank you for sharing with me...
2007-10-16 05:15:25 · 26 answers · asked by ? 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Don, I too stuggle with this, I understand the tears, It seems I cry each & every time. You are a gentle soul.
2007-10-22 00:52:26 · update #1
Midnight Rainbow, I know this experience of realizing you are innocent, & so is all. It changes everything. Thank you for sharing with me.
2007-10-22 00:56:47 · update #2
CC, I have not had a shift to that degree, maybe you could tell me of it sometime?
2007-10-22 00:58:01 · update #3
Rafael, I don't know , would make a good Q.
2007-10-22 01:00:36 · update #4
Magical, OMG until 23 I always thought it was me & I was crazy then a amazing thing happened that showed me otherwise. I would love to hear your story one day
2007-10-22 01:05:04 · update #5
Lucky, I had that same experience when my child was a teenager, now that was freeing, I sent her to her Dad. LOL
2007-10-22 01:08:34 · update #6
Shaun B, the scary thing is I could follow that, no really! Thank you.
2007-10-22 01:11:19 · update #7
Rena, This has been one of my toughest lessons also & one I strive to remember daily, thank You.
2007-10-23 02:52:17 · update #8
Old Stray, this is one we all need, maybe we could stop killing the Earth if we could live this..
2007-10-23 02:53:46 · update #9
Onegaishimas,not boring me, that is profound.
dad, I'm a Texas Girl too
DuDette, spitit speaks thru all medium,
Diane, I felt unloved & then knew I was, you are always worthy,
Jocobi, thank you, many come to this
Nyjal, interesting, food for thought
FC, amazing
Ms Holly, I'm soory
2007-10-24 01:26:05 · update #10
EJK, just follow your heart
Michele, it is the way, wow,
Solar Flare, that is a gift & amazing
Chris F., I guess I'm not there yet, but I could be with a little help with the math
Zelda, I met my husband & just knew
2bz2bdz, what courage & determination. Remember, everyone is addicted to something, it is the nature of this world.
2007-10-24 01:39:15 · update #11
In trying to decide BA I felt a little overwhelmed, all experience is as valid as the next. I did not want to dishonor anyone, I truly believe I only lose if I do. Each of you touched me, well except the guy with the "bum" thing. To me they are all BA. But I have to pick one or leave it to the Trolls to decide, in which case the Guy with the "bum" answer might get best answer. So, I was left picking the one closest to my own wxperiences.
I want to give a thank you to Sunman, You shared something precious with me when you answered this Q, & I know that feeling, Thank you!
( sorry for misspellings or typos, not perfect, yet!)
2007-10-24 01:47:07 · update #12
This was perhaps my biggest surprise.
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings Dear Sister
Your brother
Don
2007-10-16 05:35:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
When I worked out for myself a simple algebraic proof.
Through my younger years I always thought of myself as being non-mathematical, and I avoided such courses as much as possible in school.
Years after all my formal education was done, though, I became curious about the point at which the fahrenheit and the celsius temperature scales converge. It's easy enough to look it up, but I decided to work out a formal algebraic proof.
Do it for yourself if you like, start with this set-up:
9/5 x + 32 = x. You'll get the answer. The point of convergence is
-40.
Anyway, it was an amazing flash of insight that my supposed aversion of math had long been just a self-imposed blockade, and that I could do in this area as much as I focused on doing.
2007-10-16 08:55:59 · answer #2 · answered by Christopher F 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well its probably not the most amazing one to me, but its the most recent one...
just recently i finished reading a novel "the fall of a titan"
i judged the main character because he was a spy for the Soviet regime back in 1917, working against the people of Russia .. Anyways ... the writer brought out alot of the character's cruelty, indifference, careerism, and coldness in that character, yet at the same time he managed to show us how that spy had his own outbursts of conscience, awakening and a desire to repent and quit his dirty work, that showed him in a different light.. yet the character managed to confess that every time this awakening will pass ... giving up on his own self...
i suddenly realized im alot like that character, and alot of people are ... and i realized that so many want to change to be better people (whatever "better" means) ... and yet we fail to mst of the time, and as soon as we get to the point where we confess to ourselves that every time, the awakening is just temporary, thats when we really give it all up ... and drawn ourselves back into the lives we cant change .. trying not to think there is a better way to live ... and so most are left unchanged ... change is a miracle … and miracles don’t exist in our materialistic world …
2007-10-16 06:03:30 · answer #3 · answered by DuDeTte 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
When I heard the sound of one hand clapping and knew:
You cannot have good without evil.
You cannot have love without hate.
Altruism cannot exist without selfishness.
Success cannot exist without failure.
Nothing exists by itself. A thing is defined by what is does.
And so a pencil with nothing to write on is not a pencil;
And a human with no problems is not a human.
I was transfixed by the awareness that this flawed world is perfect;
Because in a perfect world we would be nothing.
If this is God's creation the flaws are deliberate.
Because there is no kindness without cruelty.
There are no heroes in heaven.
2007-10-17 05:31:01 · answer #4 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That every other person has a "me" inside which experiences, feels, thinks & looks out through their senses at the world. More than this, that the "me" inside each other person is every bit as real, vital & alive as mine.
I knew that before but only in an abstract way. When I really grasped this with all my mind & heart it blew me away. Consciousness is awesome, and it feels tremendously precious.
2007-10-20 15:28:10 · answer #5 · answered by SolarFlare 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I managed to accidentally prove a deistic God by virtue of his non-existance, in a way that ended up being compatible (I think.....) with nearly all major religions. Boy was I suprised. One of those 5 in the morning ideas.....Lots of scribbling later and I still haven't got it all down, but it's a start. Or the moment I finally understood how people work (I'm not talking "Play with their heads" stuff, just a basic observation as to how we all operate on the most fundamental level.). Of course, all of these could be delusion, which raises the issue as to whether one persons epiphany, that absolute moment of clarity, can be universal. Can perfect realization be applied universally? Would you truly understand another persons epiphany?
Oh dear. You've set me off.....
2007-10-16 07:35:50 · answer #6 · answered by Rafael 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Your question is so timely. I just watched a TV commentary show last Sunday and got a very wonderful 'flash of insight' from the philanthropist guest named 'John Sie' (hope got his name right). He was asked a lot about his "VOD business" (Video On Demand) and how he was able to survive competition. In his answers, he mentioned about his wife as his business partner, and also his daughter who helps run the business. Out of the blue he mentioned his only daughter's giving birth to a baby who has deficiency syndrome. He was cut at that moment by the anchorman saying he was sorry to hear that,..but Mr. J.S. firmly said NO,..and told him it was a BLESSING indeed. His reply stunned the anchorman who became speechless. He continued saying that the world only thought of blessing as something that benefits, and of abundance value. He said in fact he was so thankful even so his grandchild has genital defect because it made him feel and see how things were made balance. He said his family was superbly stable and he felt like they had everything anyone could ever ask for...and so they needed something 'inferior' in a sense...to make them seek hope.
This hit me like a flash of lightning,..realizing how RIGHT his words were. Truly, BLESSINGS come in many forms and many shades so strange and unfamiliar for us to define right away. It takes the heart to really see in what shape blessing has taken form.
2007-10-17 01:15:51 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
OK.The first time I met my Ex husband I had a flash of inight, "If this guy has a wife, I bet he keeps her locked up at home." Sometimes you need to trust your intuition. I am so glad I didn't though, because I have a son and a granddaughter now.
2007-10-16 13:14:24 · answer #8 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
life is a journey and the happiness is in the journey not the arriving there was two paths and i took the one less travel and that made all the differance in the world and go west young man go west i move from ny to texas made all the difference in the world
2007-10-16 05:58:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
A year ago I came to the realization that I am worthy of love. I never truly understood what that meant till I experienced it.
I love myself first and foremost. It is such a liberating experience, to care for oneself with all one's being.
Now I am free to love everyone.
2007-10-16 07:40:26 · answer #10 · answered by diannegoodwin@sbcglobal.net 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋