I keep coming back to the importance of self-image in one's life trajectory. You become who you believe you are. You do what you believe you can do.
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"...on the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." -Gandhi. Also echoes a similar quote from the Bhagavad Gita
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I would like to make the difference and leave something good to the world, like you.
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Same energy: All prayers are to Self And, in one way or another, All prayers are answered. Pray, But beware. Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become. ~ Octavia Butler
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True that. So many lessons to learn!
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Sadly, not. He perceives but not is, as he believes. The other way round is sadly true, as you already mentioned. Still, the need to be as we believe and the strive to accomplish it, are often a good and rewarding substitute. The journey is just as important as the destination.
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And the Vita goes on to say that what THAT is, is illusion. In no way is following thought Spiritual. In fact it is the exact opposite of Spirituality Spirituality is about finding reality and thought is what projects the illusion You have described the cycle of Samsara
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Will Durant
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also echoes a similar quote from Goethe : "Our wishes are preconceptions of the abilities that lie within us."
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Being is to becoming as truth is to belief. Timaeus was reincarnated as the soul of philosophy for over two millennia.
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