values

[carpe_embreem]

Every so often I lose sight of my values. It's like my sense of self evaporates into whooshy air (whooshy! what a great word!) and so it's been really important to me lately to try to get a better grasp on a personal value system. I've been involving myself in a theology class to help with this, and was really pleased to see it addressed in DBT.

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[sntmentalfkness]

I should do this. Thanks for posting and sharing!

[carpe_embreem]

it's definitely way incomplete, but something i really want to bring my attention to.

[rotting_angel]

I was happier when I had faith in god and believed in the religion I was following.
I just don't have that anymore. I don't have much spirituality anymore. I over analyze everything to the point of having no faith in anything.

I wish I had my DBT work book. I wonder where it went.

[carpe_embreem]

i used to be very spiritual, and then my dislike of religion caused me to turn my back on all of it. I'm trying to cultivate my spirituality, so that it makes sense for me. it's tough. i disdain anything "religious" as nonsense, so it gets tricky trying to honor the part of me that is intensely spiritual without getting too far in Religiosity.

[rotting_angel]

I've been trying to include such things in m y life lately but I'm just...distracted with everything else. I agree with you on that religious part. I'm particularly interested in native american beliefs. (I'm a tad native, and my girls are mostly native cus the boyfriend is native and like a 16th mexican.) I sometimes enjoy going to my step moms baptist church. I just hate that whole "Pray on it and give it to god he'll figure it out" shit. Whenever a family member tells me "give it to god and all will turn out" I feel like shaking them.

[carpe_embreem]

i feel similarly, someone recently reminded me of Mother's Teresa's words, something like when someone asked her, "In times like this, where is God?"

And she says "In times like this, God asks, where are the people?"

I'm definitely more in the WE are God's hands camp, and if we want to see some awesomeness in the world, we need to be proactive and act with love and wisdom and actively go after solutions.