Reflection on Baggage/Traveling Light

My topic is about traveling light in a spiritual way.The goal of spiritual travel is mystical or transcendent religious experience. The reason for an interest in spiritual travel is that it provides a unique means of approaching these distant and extraordinary states of religious awareness. It does this by exposing the spiritual seeker to a series of lessons about the nature of identity, and the freedom of the soul to travel in various non-physical environments. These lessons gradually introduce the spiritual traveler to a variety of psychic and spiritual states containing increasing degrees of individual freedom, and spiritual awareness. In addition, spiritual travel provides an inner laboratory where the seeker can experiment with techniques and methods of moving through the more limited psychic states of awareness and into these distant spiritual realms. The religious person can use spiritual travel to explore the heavenly states described in their religious texts prior to physical death which can help them turn faith and hope in their religious ideal into confidence and spiritual knowledge.

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Sam Casqueira Traveling With Inner Baggage

My message to teens that are carrying baggage is to let it go as soon as they can. No matter how heavy it is, it’s the past and there’s nothing you can do about it so what’s the point of stressing over it? Personally I carry around too much baggage and I can’t seem to follow my own advice but don’t make my mistake because it messes you up internally. If I could do my past over again I would but I can’t. Another thing is that when people say that you only live your years once its true because I really wish I could re live my years and I’m only 15, so my message is to take advantage of every single day you can.

How Humility and Obedience Need Each other to Work in my Life

       In everyday life, I see how humility and obedience play a major role in the way I act towards others. These two virtues can't exist inside me without the other. Humility is the accepting of who I am, including both the good and bad qualities of myself. Obedience is being able to renounce my own will and what I want to do for my own benefit, in order to do the will of the other. I see how I cannot be obedient if I'm not humble and how I cannot be humble if I'm not obedient. Everyday people ask something of me whether it be my mother, my teacher, those of higher authority, or even my friends and classmates. Most of the time, I see how it is a struggle for me to obey, or do what the other wants because of the way I feel at the moment, or because I do not find any sense of what they are asking me to do. Sometimes, I feel that when it comes to obeying the other, I feel that I should apply the teachings of St. Benedict that I have recently learned, which are to obey unquestioningly, and promptly, and to not exalt myself when I obey someone, because then the obedience becomes useless if it is done for my individual glory, and not for the glory of God.
     

JulianC

Why Obedience and Humility Are Important

Obedience is when one follows the commands given. People should obey, not only because they are feared, but because it's a sign of respect. An example would be when your parents ask you to do certain chores. Humility is when a person knows their strengths and weaknesses in different things. People can lack humility in different ways. Many people lack humility whenever someone says that they are good looking. Instead of refusing a compliment like some, they'll end up taking the compliment to another level. By this, I mean that they can act cocky. Humility is important in our daily lives because without it, people would lack confidence. Obedience is important because if no one listens, then nothing will get done.

Obedience in my life-

Obedience had always been a motto of my life. As a teenager, I always ask myself about the values of obedience, and how I can  totally submit myself to others around me, without hurting them in any other way. As I grew up, day after day at Sunday school, my teacher often read from the book of Ephesians 6:1 "children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right". And for this reason, I often wonder why only obey my parents, and not other people? Now, I have realized the merit of obedience, and that it does not only mean being under total submission of those in authority, or even elders, but also looking after younger folks in the community. Therefore helping even your little siblings, or other folks younger then you in the community, shows that obedience requires humility.

traveling light

well sometimes i carry with me psychological baggage with me for example when i play soccer when we loose i carry i sad psychological baggage.when i get home my parents see me depress and they know right away that  im disappointed or not in a good mood. Most of the times people can see psychological baggage in you by the way you act or by the way you react when a question is asked to you or to your teammates psychological baggage basically describes your emotional feelings n it reflects on you. baggage can bring you down in many emotional ways  for examples when your sad or when ever your not in a mood to do anything with anybody and your just their like ignoring people and not caring that can be the you probably haven had a good day or you did something bad.Someone family relatives or even friends can make u let go of the baggage and just make your emotion change from sad to happy.
I think some material possessions  can become as much of a burden as they are a pleasure because for example electronics can become material possession because you just want to let does stuff go and when parents electronics away you would do anything to the electronics back. some people might keep this from happening by timing their self not be on electronics for hours have some time for the family do sports stuff like that . Many people can find doing sport more helpful then just playing video games sport can actually help you video games is not going to take you anywhere as an sport can .

heavy Bag

I think your heavy bag is alway heavy because is that went you go to the stone food you alway have a heavy bag that you alway have to care when you get out of the stone .And you alway  wise that some body would be   their for you that alway could be a friend or a some in your family  that want to do some think good for you so  that could make them feel happy what they did for you .Some time their are people their at the stone that would help you with your food .If  my mom tell me to go to the stone i would ask some if they would want to go with me to the stone and that would be a good thing for me.