Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tl00363)

To Vincent: > Is there also a possibility to use the mind in a way that it
enriches the soul?

"I'll make an attempt to answer your question, but my words may not be
the best. The mind is tied to our actions, and is formed of knowledges.
These many knowledges are each limited and are themselves the means of
limiting our lives, making our physical activities habitual. Physical
recreation frees the mind, and something that I am finding to be of
paramount imporance to the spiritual enrichment of the soul is to
Sabbath. My oppinion of mind is that they are altogether common,
everyone has one, but without taking periodic rest of the sort that
Sabbath implies anyones mind becomes controlling and tightly limiting,
squeezing the ego into fits of outburst or disfunction.

In this world of information bombardment peoples saturated minds are
harboring impoverished souls. My advice is not to trust the limits that
the mind imposes on your world, 1 Corinthians 13 states that love
believes all things, does all things. We must constantly step back from
the most ordinary things that we hold to be true, in that many of these
'evil' ideas serves only to limit the possibilities and reinforce our
anoying habitual activities. Turn off the TV for a year maybe two, an
aniversary of Zen like extistance can be illuminating.

Peace be with you,"

Thank you very much for that answer - and peace to you too. I actually
more ment the question in a practical way, kind of how could everybody
start to try out what we are theoretically discussing here, so that they
might be able to live it, if they wish to. Kind of having Sabbath daily.

Like for example: turn off TV and start to find your first picture.
How does it look like? Are you able to change it? If you don't have a
picture go back to a moment in your life you enjoyed and felt perfectly well
and try to imagine it (and now maybe you find out that it is not easy to
remeber such a situation ...). Anybody found a picture?

I simply feel that we have to practise, to help each other to live "love,
creativity, God, or however you wish to name it" and not only always
just talk about it theoretically.

Just my opinion - all the very best for you,

Nicole