I'm going to be rather frank and open during this post. I'm putting myself out there because I feel like I need to. Keeping with the idea that this blog is essentially a way for me to track my spiritual growth throughout my time here at Drury University, I'm going to let you all in on a big road block I've been running into in my studies.
I need a spiritual axiom. I need an archemedian point from which to springboard myself. I think I may look too seriously into everything I've been studying, but with each new philosophy or religion I learn about, I change my stance on this world. I'm not sure what is right and what is wrong. Right now, I can't really tell up from down. I'm leaning a lot right now towards the ideas of Hinduism. They seem to make a lot of sense to me right now, but when I start studying Taoism or Buddhism, who knows? That's my problem. I'm hesitant to start following one particular path for fear that it's wrong.
Right now I have one archemedian point, one axiom to start comparing things to: loving people. In no philosophy or religion can loving people be wrong. Even atheism, in most cases, views the community as the top priority. Treating the people around me with love and respect seems to be the way to go, but there is no transcendency in that. Should I just stop concerning myself with a faith and just love people? I suppose right now I have no choice but to love those around me and keep my mind open.
