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5.28.2023

Flesh and spirit

Get to where you hunger for self-remembering (i.e., for conscious impressions) like you hunger for food. 

I've lately made a lot of the realization that we are flesh and we are spirit. People in general, even Christians, don't think in these terms. Sex is flesh, eating food is flesh, working for money is flesh, pretty much... Reading a great novel is spirit. Reading anything great is spirit because it increases understanding which is spirit. Work practices are spirit.

We should be a greater percentage spirit than flesh. Maybe 80/20 ideally. 

We need to realize we can value spirit more than flesh. Youth value flesh. It was a fun gathering. "Did you get laid?" As if that is a higher valuation than anything else. 

I quit smoking. Smoking was a strong incentive to get me outside walking around, at all times. Now that I don't have that incentive I am consciously replacing it with hunger for being in the third state. Hunger for conscious impressions. Tonight I could actually feel that hunger. That draw. 

Posted by c.t. at 01:49