Your Soul and your Stuff.

Fundamental questions:

If you always give, you will always have.

What am I doing with my "stuff", my earthly possessions?  

Am I using my stuff for good or nefarious reasons?




Every single thing I own. Both tangible and intangible, for example my intellect. Am I harming people or helping people with my smarts? Ditto the job that I do.

My money. How do I spend it? Where  and when do I spend it? Who do I spend it on? What's my attachment like to money?










My Entertainment gadgets (please allow me to include mobile phones here)...Which movies or T.V programmes am I drawn to? Which games am I playing? What do I call entertainment? Laughing at other people's expense? My computer..what am I searching for? Which websites am I surfing? My e-mails? Am I Tearing people down or building them up? 


My mobile phone, meant for emergencies, has become a lethal weapon. Gossipping, rumor mongering. Or praise, encouragement, my choice.

Every moment is a choice: Heal or Destroy. ~Martha Beck

Where’d all the good people go
I’ve been changin’ channels I don’t see them on the TV shows. ~Jack Johnson

 Am I learning, am I progressing? Or am I vegging, retarding, crowding my mind with information that will lead me to certain trouble. Dimming my mind with fear, anxiety, panic, hatred, propaganda that's promulgated by a media with an agenda.






Where am I investing my time?
Time is precious! And once spent, you can never get it back.
On whom am I spending my time?

Am I serving my ego by showing off?Am I using my possessions to define who I am?

Who would I be without all of my things or status symbols e.g: job and job titles, life titles (mom, dad, fiance, wife, husband), cars, home, clothes,  memberships to clubs, die hard athletic team loyalties, Identities like race, religion, country....

Am I enriching mine and others' lives with how I use my "Stuff"?

Which books am I buying? What kind of magazines am I reading?

Am I looking to God to fulfill me?Or do I depend on my worldly possessions?

Who or what is the master of my life? Which of my "stuff" has me in bondage?


Have I got my life on hold? Am I waiting til I acquire the right amount of "Stuff" to finally start enjoying life?


The "waiting to start living" syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state. ~Eckhart Tolle.

                                       

At the end of my life, can I account for what I did with all the earthly blessings that God gave me?

Was I selfish? Did I horde?

At deaths door, how do I answer the question, "Where's your stuff now?" "How much of it did you bring with you?"

In the proximity of death, the whole concept of ownership stands revealed as ultimately meaningless. ~Eckhart Tolle.



         Did I let my "Stuff" get in the way of my spirituality?

Do it Like so: Have a generous Spirit.

So I give of my blessings and pray that my blessings can become others' blessings too!

The measure of a life, after all,

is not its duration but its donation.

~Corrie ten Boom~