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The Path of Most Resistance
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The Path of Most Resistance (LHP) is the path where you your Self is in command of the wheel. The Path of Least Resistance (RHP) is the path where one allows Jesus or some other god or gods to take the wheel and you are just along for the ride. Most people travel the path of most resistance, most people, including myself, are and have had to work hard and struggle for almost everything they have from financial, emotional, and spiritual prosperity and tranquility in life. To me, self-creation (Xeper) and taking personal responsibility for ones own actions are the most rewarding of life's principles, which reminds me of the Satanic proverb: "That which does not kill you will make you stronger."
Xeper.
/Adramelek\
Xeper.
/Adramelek\
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Adramalek's reply was excellent. I'll add that in research on happiness and positive psyhology, it is resistance or challenge that keeps life vibrant. Overcoming obstacles waters the seed of your unconscious expectation that you can command reality through meaningful focus to fulfill your desires. And you get better and better at it.
The correlation between resistance and how good one's life is likely varies between individuals. I don't think the LHP is the path of most resistance at all. Less dogma, less people even know what you are, you learn better skills of functioning in the world, there's no need for morality, you only need to worry about yourself, the list just goes on.
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
"Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its timeon which we are burned, as it were, with green woodcompels us philosophers to descend into our ultimate depths and to put aside all trust, everything good-natured, everything that would interpose a veil, that is mild, that is mediumthings in which formerly we may have found our humanity. I doubt that such pain makes us "better"; but I know that it makes us more profound."
"The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin. its inventiveness and courage in enduring, persevering, interpreting and exploiting suffering and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?"
Though I may be whittled down, I have become sharper and more functional for it.
To put it simply, I think that when you have to struggle, not only does it make you stronger, but it's more meaningful.
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
It's the only source of meaning, I would say. The opposite is Nirvana.
nash8
Da man, when I walk thru!
Hmm... interesting perspective.
I always find profoundness in this dir. I'm glad you guys didn't kick me out... yet lol.
Coming from a different perspective, let's say Luciferian lol. Blessed are those that are broken, for it is they who let in the light.
In order to obtain knowledge, you must struggle. It is only through this struggle that you gain the knowledge that you need not struggle to gain knowledge.
Infinitum
Possessed Bookworm
I don't think we always see the resistance that is there since we become accustomed to it or perhaps don't even end up in situations where we encounter it. The last few days for me have been a time of very high resistance. I'm battling hundreds of people for only nine places in the school where I want. After half a year of continuous studying I was already exhausted. I failed the test the day before and was left with the one that was the most important for me. I desperately wanted to succeed in the entrance exam.
I found myself reflecting on my spirituality while sitting there waiting for the exam to start. I was brought up to believe in God and that he had a plan for me. In my previous "life" this was the kind of situation where I would have prayed, begging God to let me have what I wanted. I don't believe in God anymore and for the first time perhaps ever I had to face the immense emotional weight of being the sole force in control of my own destiny. I believe realizing and embracing that helped me tap into the full strength I really had. I studied more and I worked a little harder to answer the exam questions than I would otherwise have. I've often walked out of situations like these with a feeling of hopelessness. This time it's nothing like that, I'm just really proud of myself for getting as far as I did, wherever it's taking me. If I don't pass the exam I'll work another year and nail it, because I know I will.
PS. I'm on an emotional high after everything that's happened this week. Come back and ask if I'm as confident in myself when I get the exam results in July.
I found myself reflecting on my spirituality while sitting there waiting for the exam to start. I was brought up to believe in God and that he had a plan for me. In my previous "life" this was the kind of situation where I would have prayed, begging God to let me have what I wanted. I don't believe in God anymore and for the first time perhaps ever I had to face the immense emotional weight of being the sole force in control of my own destiny. I believe realizing and embracing that helped me tap into the full strength I really had. I studied more and I worked a little harder to answer the exam questions than I would otherwise have. I've often walked out of situations like these with a feeling of hopelessness. This time it's nothing like that, I'm just really proud of myself for getting as far as I did, wherever it's taking me. If I don't pass the exam I'll work another year and nail it, because I know I will.
PS. I'm on an emotional high after everything that's happened this week. Come back and ask if I'm as confident in myself when I get the exam results in July.
Now that's what I call an inspiring and motivational post. Ave Infinitum!
Xeper.
/Adramelek\
I was talking with some friends last night about obstacles from a Thelemic perspective, and what really constitutes. Thelema says that following the proper course will avoid all obstacles, but that's an unrealistic goal. So we wanted to ammend that somehow. Well, there are obstacles that will arise from the improper path, such as divorce or hating one's job choice. However, when it comes to things not our fault then it isn't struggling or overcoming, it's just living. With depression, that is part of your natural course. It's not an obstacle to overcome but a trait to adapt to. This will be the case with the majority of "resistance" you come to. Likewise, I just had my most painful spine surgery to date. That's not resistance, just part of the flow.
And none of this has to do with the LHP. There are vastly more avoidable obstacles that exist in the Right.
And none of this has to do with the LHP. There are vastly more avoidable obstacles that exist in the Right.
Here's the rub: do you take the "proper course" on Faith, or do you investigate it and test it out in order to know it to be true or not?
Of course you have to test it out. How can you find your proper course based on faith? That's like choosing the major your parents have pushed on you and praying to be happy.