tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367161100956691682.post7926303049009251807..comments2024-01-28T09:52:30.550-08:00Comments on Arash's World: The Happy versus the Spiritual ManArash Farzanehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000344680925876563noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367161100956691682.post-63881678793022800002015-04-08T13:23:01.188-07:002015-04-08T13:23:01.188-07:00Thank you, Vincent, for beautifully summarizing my...Thank you, Vincent, for beautifully summarizing my post! Arash Farzanehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12000344680925876563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367161100956691682.post-48727302095235824072015-04-05T01:21:12.612-07:002015-04-05T01:21:12.612-07:00Wonderful post, and took me through my own experie...Wonderful post, and took me through my own experience, described in your words, so great sharing there. The sentence which stood out for me was this:<br /><br />“My only communication with the spiritual world is by means of thanks and gratitude since we as a whole have been exceptionally lucky.” <br /><br />That’s the essence of it now for me too. <br /><br />But I’d sum up your theme as follows.<br /><br />Worldly joy is being thankful and grateful for having been exceptionally lucky.<br /><br />Spiritual joy is being thankful and grateful unconditionally, for whatever luck brings.<br /><br />A very real sense of neediness draws us to one or the other; or a mix of both.<br /><br />Spiritual joy ends neediness and striving, lets us live intensely in the circumstances that ‘luck’, whatever that is, presents. Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com