One looks around and notices many spiritually sincere people who
don't look happy. In some cases their depression is self-inflicted;
they feel that God condemns desire, therefore they punish
themselves for having needs, wants, wishes, and dreams. They try to
achieve an emotional flatness that barely participates in the
world. Other forms of spiritual depression exist because the person
believes that God wants us to withdraw from life and all its
disturbances.
You can find a kind of peace by withdrawing, but it is the ego's
peace, born of a decision to avoid all conflict, to renounce anger
as bad and unworthy of a spiritual person, to escape all taint of
negativity as it exists "out there." You must learn to avoid these
tactics of the ego by seeing that inner peace also extends outward.
It comes from embracing creation as divine in every aspect. When
you are not afraid of anything, you can unite with it. In union you
attain a peace that nothing "out there" can shake.
One looks around and notices many spiritually sincere people who
don't look happy. In some cases their depression is self-inflicted;
they feel that God condemns desire, therefore they punish
themselves for having needs, wants, wishes, and dreams....
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Deepak Chopra answered:One looks around and notices many spiritually sincere people who don't look happy. In some cases their depression is self-inflicted; they feel that God condemns desire, therefore they punish themselves for having needs, wants, wishes, and dreams. They try to achieve an emotional flatness that barely participates in the world. Other forms of spiritual depression exist because the person believes that God wants us to withdraw from life and all its disturbances.
