tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408275385817088376.post8626208401577216189..comments2023-09-12T03:14:11.545-07:00Comments on Soul-Making and Spiritual Cliche' Busting: Accepting The Discords of GodMichael (Mike) Bogarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07024413445397164637noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408275385817088376.post-5338563186536762482009-04-01T23:08:00.000-07:002009-04-01T23:08:00.000-07:00Thank you. I realized I have been waiting to final...Thank you. I realized I have been waiting to finally get 'there.' Now I realize that life is exactly the way it is supposed to be and that trying to avoid emotional pain by spiritual techniques is a subtle kind of egoism. What a relief to see that life brings problems to make souls. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4408275385817088376.post-65658749762620888552008-05-03T13:53:00.000-07:002008-05-03T13:53:00.000-07:00Wow...this article was very powerful for me. Thank...Wow...this article was very powerful for me. Thank you Michael, for being an expression of Truth in the midst of so much pop-culture, neo-spiritual babble which claims that Life is only about 'joy, comfort, and ease'. I thought for a long time that I was supposed to be striving to be comfortable and easeful all the time, and that constantly affirming this was the "right" path to God. This all started to feel false to me eventually, like reading a book where several crucial chapters are missing, and I knew somehow that I wasn't getting the whole story. Ever heard the Talking Heads song, "Heaven"? Being "chronically happy", or always comfortable, in a static, unchanging, uninspiring way, is what that song is about, and reminds me a little of our current new age spiritual culture of trying to get to a place of "heaven...where nothing ever happens".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com