PDA

View Full Version : What are your real values in life?



blazeofglory
03-08-2009, 05:16 AM
People value different things in life; some value money, power, beauty, position or relationship; others have spiritual values, religious principles and the like. Others have something they are still different, and they revel in intellectual glories. Some want to kind of bask in traveling, or owning a better place of abode with a very pleasing spouse.

I think all these attributes or values will liquefy in a while, and you will be left alone to yourself and with nothing other than your faint memories and consciences at the end of the day in point of fact.

Nothing has constancy; everything will fade. Yet a question may crop as to why we still keep on tying up with things that will evaporate eventually. That is Karma. And Karma can not be undone or deactivated or abandoned. As long as we hold this physical entity that is our body we can not be in inaction or abstinence from action or Karma. Even breathing involves us in sets of action and we as a matter of fact engage in millions actions every day.

Granted everything will vaporize but the truth is even if we engage in action or in inaction things will fade. Therefore engaging ourselves in right action is what keeps us close to or on the path to enlightenment.

I value, therefore life and a life that is full of duty, benevolence and a spirit of universality. I value the idea that the universe is a common asset and we are sharers of it. In sharing there must be justices.

Eugenie
03-08-2009, 04:26 PM
I value beyond anything my relatonship with my Creator, to little by little get to know God and enjoy him and share with him and learn and grow.
After that my family, for inside this tiny world is everything I need to learn love and patience and hope and joy and anguish; to learn unselfishness and forgiveness, to share the love of God with.
After that, to emulate my Heavenly Father in my family and out there in the world. To not shut my eyes to suffering but to help the best I can. To give financially and emotionally, to be the arms of God around the lonely and outcast and forgotten.
To know when I lay down to die I have expended myself, poured myself out like water as the Bible says of those who wish to be like Him, to give all I have, even for my enemies. And thus leave a lingering unearthly beautiful aroma of fresh fragrant roses in the air, something good for all my hard work, my labour of love, not forced but willingly given.Not that I am anything at all, but one of His children who delighted to help show the world His love for them. To be, as Mother Theresa said of herself " I am but the pencil of God."