02-19-2012, 05:21 PM
Let us place ourselves in the circumstance of being the last two sentient beings in the universe. We share a love for each other and one of us is dying. When the other dies we will be the only. There will be no one esle with which to share life and existence.
But we become aware that we have an opportunity to save the life of our mate by forfeiting half of what would have been the rest of our own existence.
The choice becomes, shorten our own existence which we would be able to share with a loved one, or live a longer existence alone without interaction or ability to express love or share intelligent thought.
This is the bare bones difference between STO and STS, and the reason why STO is how we evolve as intelligence.
What would be the experience of a being that only sees one side of anything? What would one being know of any other point of view if all it had was its own perspective? Sharing this existence is nothing more than looking into creation with another set of eyes so that we can see what is on the other side. The memory of the One cannot be collective if it is singular. The sharing of experiences is how the One becomes the All. And this is why STO is the path to growth, and why STS becomes a dead end.
It is always a matter of balance and choice. But it is also always a matter of growth versus decay, or walking into an existence that is becoming more enlightened rather than walking the other way. Some deliberately choose to remain in the darkness, because they are addicted to the lusts of the flesh and refuse to leave those satisfactions behind. They walk back into the cave because that is where they know they can find satisfaction by the fire and near the food. The unknown offers only mystery. But to remain in the cave, the darkness, is to never know what other opportunities await you.
Those from the higher dimensions do not return to the cave for STS, they return for STO, despite the opportunities that await them.
That is the defintion of love and service to others.
But we become aware that we have an opportunity to save the life of our mate by forfeiting half of what would have been the rest of our own existence.
The choice becomes, shorten our own existence which we would be able to share with a loved one, or live a longer existence alone without interaction or ability to express love or share intelligent thought.
This is the bare bones difference between STO and STS, and the reason why STO is how we evolve as intelligence.
What would be the experience of a being that only sees one side of anything? What would one being know of any other point of view if all it had was its own perspective? Sharing this existence is nothing more than looking into creation with another set of eyes so that we can see what is on the other side. The memory of the One cannot be collective if it is singular. The sharing of experiences is how the One becomes the All. And this is why STO is the path to growth, and why STS becomes a dead end.
It is always a matter of balance and choice. But it is also always a matter of growth versus decay, or walking into an existence that is becoming more enlightened rather than walking the other way. Some deliberately choose to remain in the darkness, because they are addicted to the lusts of the flesh and refuse to leave those satisfactions behind. They walk back into the cave because that is where they know they can find satisfaction by the fire and near the food. The unknown offers only mystery. But to remain in the cave, the darkness, is to never know what other opportunities await you.
Those from the higher dimensions do not return to the cave for STS, they return for STO, despite the opportunities that await them.
That is the defintion of love and service to others.
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