mccoy, I find your assessments helpful. You have known me for awhile now, undoubtedly not in one lifetime but in past and future scenarios. For this my moments here with Eric, Kelly, Joy and other friends who have been here and will return who support keeping this site going I will always be grateful. There are always shades of grey in silver linings and we should never expect others to go through the same path as ourselves. I can never know the experiences that mccoy, Eric, Kelly, Joy and others have had to arrive at their present views. Until we are enlightened we will always have challenges understanding the views and actions of those who come into the sphere of our influence. Sometimes those attitudes and views send us reeling apart for a time. However those who play important roles in our lives seem to mysteriously reappear, often at helpful times, when answers to perplexing life situations do not seem to be forthcoming.
I actually had to review what I have said that initiated this discussion. I have since found that some of us are going through a progressed spiritual training, that other friends may not choose to currently follow. It reminds me of what Brother Anandamoy once said when he was talking about a devotee that prayed this prayer; “Lord chisel thou my will to thy purpose.” Brother said that, this man is a brave man to ask for such training. Because most people who think they want such discipline, will cry; ‘Wait a minute that hurt when you chiseled that part off that piece of ME, put it back.’
