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Online Pablo de Fleurs

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Inspiration
« on: October 03, 2013, 04:47:31 AM »
I love the concept of Self-Mastery. And without writing an essay, humanity & culture pursue any amount of distractions-hopes-dreams-pleasures-aims-etc...all seeking "freedom". But those pursuits generally enslave. They would be the same to argue that "religion" is a trap & that they seek "freedom" to think-act-do on their own. But a relationship with your maker is, IMO, true freedom & allows for spiritual maturity to see through the traps of worldly distractions & snares.

That said, this is an interesting insight from Steven Pressfield:


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2 Timothy 1:7
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power & of love and of calm, a well-balanced mind, discipline and self-control.

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Re: Inspiration
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2013, 06:44:01 AM »
Good post. There are certainly politicians who think we are too stupid to govern ourselves. My fear is that for many of us they may be right.  And the politicians have been working for some time now to make those who cannot govern themselves a majority.
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Re: Inspiration
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2013, 07:06:39 AM »
John Adams knew this basic truth as well.

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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

For a brief moment in human history, the concept of self-mastery was manifest in a government created by Godly men. The challenges of a new nation, and the devastation of civil war, kept us on a self-governing trajectory.

It seems as if any remnant of the concept is now almost wholly driven by inertia, compelled by stubborn folks like us.
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."

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