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As you progressively age, do you come to realize how more and more insignificant you really are?

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Posted - February 19, 2017

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  • Wonderful answer, WingedWonder.
      February 20, 2017 10:34 AM MST
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  • Thank you, Sir.
      February 20, 2017 10:54 AM MST
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  • 7775
    Sometimes my thoughts make me realize that, but then again someone or something comes along that changes those negative thoughts. When that happens, you just have to say "f**k it" and roll with the punches.
      February 19, 2017 6:49 PM MST
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  • 22891
    i dont have to age to realize that
      February 19, 2017 9:22 PM MST
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  • You are going through a difficult time with that horrid job...don't let a bad experience like that define you, Dear Pearl. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 21, 2017 9:27 AM MST
      February 19, 2017 9:50 PM MST
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  • You mean about me with the difficult time in a horrid job don't you? But, it got its perks.
      February 21, 2017 5:43 AM MST
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  • Well CWK, I don't know what your job is, but SO glad you got some perks...
      February 21, 2017 9:24 AM MST
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  • You mean about me with the difficult time in a horrid job don't you? But, it got its perks.
      February 21, 2017 5:43 AM MST
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  • 5808
    Pearl...there are deeper
    realizations to have
    that will bring insight
    to you.
    Don't get stuck in
    mediocrity .
      February 20, 2017 1:17 PM MST
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  • Oh yes, Cosmic Wunderkind...indeed I do...

    Yes, and as I age I love the feeling of being insignificant more and more...it is such freedom when you realize how unnecessary you are, such fun! Totally recommend this...unnecessary-ness and insignificance...quite delightful...
      February 19, 2017 9:54 PM MST
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  • When, in my youth, I would display arrogance, my mother would say: "It's your young blood which makes you vain; but with age will come humility." 
      February 20, 2017 11:03 AM MST
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  • 1713
    Yes, I remember in my pretentious teen years, I thought I was so great and better than everyone else. Now I realize I'm no better and it actually feels pretty good because now I don't really have such high expectations for myself and I hated feeling like a pretentious turd.
      February 20, 2017 12:23 AM MST
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  • 9778
    Not really. I am finding more and more that people depend on each other to survive. We never know what small acts we perform have a big impact on someone else's life.
      February 20, 2017 5:19 AM MST
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  • Yes, JaneS, sometimes just a little silent patience with someone in pain, goes a long, long way in establishing a new friendship or cementing an old one. 
      February 20, 2017 1:40 PM MST
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  • 13395
    The more I age means the more cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys and other animals I eat. Also the more bedbugs, cockroaches,  ants, mosquitoes and maggots I kill...

    How does aging make anyone insignificant? 
      February 20, 2017 10:25 AM MST
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  • When, in my youth, I would display arrogance, my mother would say: "It's your young blood which makes you vain; but with age will come humility." 
    Your question aptly paraphrases her words.
      February 20, 2017 10:38 AM MST
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  • Yes, 
    Although I wouldn't call the aging process particularly progressive.
      February 20, 2017 11:01 AM MST
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  • 5808
         Am thinking that no one is insignificant
    in the eyes of God
    all are totally loved and have
    many blessings that are yet to be discovered by most people.
    ...Through the eyes of worldly awareness
    we might not appear to be significant in
    the overall appearance of things,
    but in Gods eyes we are each
    a valuable asset to the working
    of the world through 
    Peace, love, compassion and understanding.
         WE each have everything we need to be in oneness
    with the essence of life. To be aware that we are gods
    upon the Earth. To be aware that our individual Soul 
    is that of God, the absolute, very significant.
         Of course if we deny all of the above,
    identify with the body, and not the Self,
    and think that that's all there is to life
    to be born and die some time later,
    one might think insignificant thoughts,
    if one is locked within the world of thought
    and in seeing nothing but the illusion. 
         But once we have a direct experience
    of our essence and realize
    we are gods upon the earth...very significant.

         anyway...just some loose insignificant thoughts
    appearing to some.
    To others a deeper understanding of life
    is possible. IMHO.

      February 20, 2017 1:12 PM MST
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  • May I venture to ask if you're a devotee of Meher Baba? 
      February 20, 2017 1:45 PM MST
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  • 5808
    Wisdom Tooth
    My experience with Meher Baba is as follows.
    On my way to India long ago, 
    I was on a train going through Germany and was thinking
    of Meher Baba because He had just left his body.
         All of a suden I was sitting with Him on a bench
    in a beautiful garden of flowers, sweet fragrancies,
    and warm sunshine. He talked to me of the value
    of silence, and what could be found within silence.
         And then it was over and i became conscious of being on the train.
    That was my only experience with Meher Baba.
    But a valued experience to me it was.
    Cheers
      February 20, 2017 2:24 PM MST
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  • What a truly Divine experience, Baba!  How fortunate you were that he chose you to spend time with!
      February 20, 2017 6:23 PM MST
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  • 5808
    It showed me one thing
    and I have experienced with all of my 
    Spiritual Teachers.
    If you think about them
    fill your head and your heart
    with them...They are there with you.
    ...That's what they do.
      February 20, 2017 6:59 PM MST
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  • 7280
    As I grow older, I am aware that I am both infinitely superfluous and infinitely valuable....

    I relish both roles...
      February 20, 2017 1:44 PM MST
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  • That's pretty good.
      February 20, 2017 2:40 PM MST
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