244 posts tagged “qotd”
If you were going to write a book, what would you write about?
I would write about how viewing religions as divine languages can be helpful for people without developed spiritual frameworks. It would be an attempt to show people that it is okay to speak multiple religious languages while maintaining their unique perspective of not having a native religious language.
What do your Vox tags say about you? (Add tags to the end of your Vox blog address, and have a look.)
Submitted by Jack Yan.
- I like to answer the QOTD and the gone but not forgotten Vox Hunt.
- Religion is important to me, especially Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam.
- I like book reviews.
- I write a fair number of posts that I tag personal.
What is the best purchase you've ever made?
I would say all of the education I have purchased (and still paying for) so far in my life would qualify as the best purchase I have ever made. Not only does this include my current enrollment, but this also includes four years of undergraduate study and three false starts at other institutions.
If you woke up one morning and realized you were all-powerful, what is the first thing you would do?
Submitted by loveless.
Every morning that I wake up, I realize that I am all-powerful.
This power is not the ability to do anything I can imagine, like commanding my
physical body fly to the moon and it actually happening. Rather, this power is
knowledge—of the surrounding world and of my being. This knowledge power can be
applied in many different ways. •
In any given
situation, I have a number of choices and viewpoints to consider and I am free
to make whatever choice I desire. •
I can choose to not
have regret about the past and worry about the future. I am free to live here
and now, where life can be fully enjoyed. •
I can be in balance
in terms of the emotional and logical continuum. Emotions do not run my life,
and I am not paralyzed by logic. •
Negative situations
can be turned into positive learning experiences when I change how I think and
see them. The power gained from knowledge helps make me a free being. No
longer am helpless in situations (often created in part by me). I know what to
choose and if I do not know, I can find out. For me, this power is cultivated in meditation, prayer,
and study. These three help me see and become awake in the present reality.
What is your dream job? Do you think you’ll ever have it?
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I know I am on the right path (holistic medicine) when I open my textbooks and see all of the writers and thinkers I read on a regular basis.
What was your biggest fear about becoming an adult?
What are things you can do today because of technology that you couldn't do five years ago?
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In 2004, I could not use Twitter on my MacBook.
Do you save cards and letters or throw them away? Bonus points if you can show us one that you saved.
I do not typically save cards or letters I receive. In the interest of simplicity, I try to not have many possessions. However, I usually save letters that involve something significant I have accomplished at school.
Do you plan to be buried, cremated, cryogenically frozen or something else?
Submitted by aynge.
I prefer the most economical method to dispose of my physical body that does not cause any unnecessary emotional anguish. I am a big proponent of either a canvas bag or a pine box. However, if cremation becomes an inexpensive option, I am open to that method as well.
Death, after all, is not the end but a transition to a different state of existence both physically and spiritually. Understanding the transitory nature of death is important for one to avoid the debilitating sorrow often associated with it.
How do you cool off when you're upset?
Submitted by K.
The cooling off process begins when I look to the source of
the anger: myself. I make the choice to be angry and I can make the choice to
not be angry. This can only happen when I see the source of the anger with eyes
that are created when I meditate/pray/think/study in the present reality. This
process reveals how I create the anger, which in turn shows how the anger can
be dissipated.
