(Benjamin Teixeira) – Eugenia, is there anything you could say about loving others?
(Spirit Eugenia) – Yes, that the closest neighbour to us is ourselves. Therefore, when Jesus said: “Love your neighbour as yourself”, as a fundamental rule of spirituality, he made a direct reference to the need of taking care of ourselves, of our self-esteem, our self-care.
(BT) – Where should we start toward this?
(SE) – By the attention with the soul. Daily prayer, partnership with God and His representatives, religious worshipping, mystic rituals, mediumistic methods and, finally, the practice of charity, self-improvement and the service of good. Everything that concerns to transcendence must have top priority in our lives. Not coincidentally, Jesus also said: “Seek you first the Kingdom of Heaven and Its righteousness and the rest shall be added on to you”. The big mistake in dealing with ourselves is that the overwhelming majority of people understands it as taking care of the body and the ego. Taking care of the ego is selfishness, while taking care of the self is to take care of the eternal soul that has spiritual urgencies, and although it has needs of survival in the physical world, it also has, as values and essential aspirations, the spiritual provisions of love, purpose, vocation, peace and happiness.
(BT) – Actually, I believe that almost no one sees it that way.
(SE) – We speak of taking care of ourselves and soon people think of diets, workouts and plastic surgeries. And also sex, long holidays, buying new clothes, cars or bigger houses, as well as insulting people, for the sake of not repressing their anger. They forget the essential: the immortal spirit that they are, by giving plenty of room to the inner child that should mature to become a wise elder that must awaken in all human creatures.
(BT) – Do you suggest anything in particular?
(SE) – A careful study about the impermanence of all things. Where are the mega stars of Hollywood of the early past century, those same whose beauty and youth seemed to last forever? Where are the greatest conquerors of mankind – Alexander, Napoleon or Hitler? What happened to yesterday’s magnates – Rockefeller, Matarazzo or Ford? Everyone turned into dust and footnotes in books rarely consulted.
On the other hand, where is that loved one who has passed away or the lunch of yesterday or even the orgasm of last night? They are gone… with the wind and time, for a spectacular dive into nothingness…
If man is nothing but the body, he is nothing.
(BT) – Many people think that this is a “bad taste” comment… and prefer to keep on “having a wild time”.
(SE) – For a child who needs to be educated, speaking of school is also very unpleasant, because she would prefer to illude herself thinking that the school holidays would never end, that she would never need to go back to school and life would be an everlasting playground. If anyone thinks like that, they will have to suffer, hopelessly, great and devastating disappointments to mature and grow up.
(BT) – Anything else to say about it?
(SE) – No, I am satisfied. But I would like to leave a last question to our dear internet visitor: if you do not survive the death of your body, what is the reason to live, fight, suffer, dream, love and die? Would all that really make any sense? Would the universe have any purpose? Could we conceive a concept of a Being All-Love and Justice? This is the fundamental answer to the essential question. Without it, nothing else makes sense.
(Dialogue held on April 07, 2003.)
(*) Today, April 07th, is the 1970 anniversary of Jesus’ death, who was crucified in the year 33. It is still unknown the day, month or year of Christ’s birth, but the date of His death is accurate, as well as His “resurrection”, which would have happened on April 09, 33. It’s Interesting Eugenia to address the immortality issue today.
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