> > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > Quote that just came in that seems to relate to a point Barry often brings > > up: > > > > For the Sake of the Whole > > Most seekers are interested in enlightenment only for their own sake, only > > for their own personal liberation. Indeed, when we begin the spiritual life, > > the most important thing to us is our own happiness, our own personal > > experience of expanded states of consciousness, our own enlightenment. But > > there comes a time when some of us begin to recognize that spiritual > > experience is not only for our own welfare. Because we have gone deeply into > > the spiritual experience, we have discovered something sacred. It is the > > recognition of an obligation, an obligation that literally commands us to > > cease to live for ourselves alone, but instead to live for the sake of the > > whole. In that obligation, it becomes apparent that this life is not our own > > in any personal sense, and that true liberation can be found only when this > > life is lived not for our own happiness but in the service of a cause that > > is always greater than ourselves. > > > > Andrew Cohen > > >
Yeah, that's true. The science is showing that too.
