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Topic: "Existential" Depression
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thirteen
Knowflake Posts: 621
From: Rochester Hills, MI USA
Registered: May 2004
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posted December 22, 2005 08:09 AM
 
Sesame, you are so right. I am lucky in the respect that I get flashes of insight at times, that help me work thru issues. Finaly this morning i am getting clear on what is going on with me. Funny it turns out i am DEPRESSING something. Its an irrational fear that needed to come up. I no longer think that voicing my anger will help at all. They will not hear as sesame states. And.... its anger you do not feel you have a right to have NOT anger you have not expressed. Coming to understand my anger is justified is for me in my own thoughts not for anyone to hear me show it. I do show it and have shown it and that hasn't gotten me anywhere.
Thanks everyone again.IP: Logged |
thirteen
Knowflake Posts: 621
From: Rochester Hills, MI USA
Registered: May 2004
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posted December 22, 2005 08:16 AM
Gooberz.... i realize that you are talking of something else. Im sorry to steer this in another direction.
I have also experienced that. For me it is a profound sadness for being here as a human. I often wonder why I came, it seems so hard in the human reality to cope. Sometimes I even hate being here. Yesterday i read that one must come to love humanity. Boy was that an eye opener for me. I don't love humanity but on some level i do. The virgo in me struggles with seeing only the flaws and there are so many. Why can't people reach deep to pull for the best in themselves. Why do they always resort to the lowest form of resolution? This is my beast of burden. I want to come to love mankind a little more, that will be my new year resolution.IP: Logged |
Hexxie
Knowflake Posts: 291
From: California
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 22, 2005 12:12 PM
Happy BirthDay Goob!I know what you mean about the sort of sadness one can feel at times. I get into the sort of sorrowful, weary state and I sort of just have to wallow in it. It's almost a nostalgic other-worldly feeling that I can't quite put my finger on. But as it was said '...and this too shall pass' and so it does. Perhaps the sadness we feel may be an unconscious memory of 'dieing in Heaven' so that our true form (Spirit) could be concentrated (like orange juice!) and born here to live in the 4th dimention human experience. It's just one of many ideas I have! Also, during the holiday seasons it's quite easy for some people to get caught in other people's wound-up-ed-ness (neat word huh?) I catch myself doing it and need to remember that the eye of the storm is still while all chaos is going on around it! Well my friends, I hope I didn't get too far off the original subject. I find it easier to think in the abstract and tend to go off on tangents  ------------------
~Libra Sun / 29* Gemini Rising / Aquarius Moon~ IP: Logged |
sesame
Moderator Posts: 1128
From: Oz
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted December 22, 2005 03:47 PM
Great work thirteen!Nice idea Hexxie!  Hey, Merry Christmas guys, Dean. IP: Logged |
divinia
Knowflake Posts: 333
From: The Crossroads of America
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted December 22, 2005 11:13 PM
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I think "existential depression" is our ultimate feeling of separation.
I agree completely, Kat. The literal meaning of Hell in the Bible is essentially "separation from God," not fire and brimstone. According to Kabbalah, there is only one thing and every fiber of our being is an exact replica of that one thing; i.e., we are not separate. I try to think of that when I am discomforted (often, at least once a month). ------------------
Sincerely,
divinia What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau IP: Logged |
Hexxie
Knowflake Posts: 291
From: California
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 23, 2005 12:41 PM
i found another quote that spoke to me: quote:
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
-- D. H. Lawrence
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~Libra Sun / 29* Gemini Rising / Aquarius Moon~ IP: Logged |
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