Those who-
- Ask their hard questions about life and expect others to do the harder work of answering them
- Need a map drawn by someone else
- Want to live by other's rules
- Turn inward to pray, meditate, or just be and thereby avoid investing themselves in their own life and
the lives of others
- Seek ways of escaping from this world
- Prefer Heaven, Nirvana, Summerland, Cosmic Bliss, Mystic Oneness with God, Brahma, Spirit, the
Universe or some other disembodied metaphysical paradise to fully enjoying the pleasures of life
and rising up to meet its challenges with dignity
- Are Westerners but prefer to pick and choose from Eastern religious beliefs and practices
- Practice blind faith, poverty, chastity, celibacy, obedience, fasting, living off unearned contributions
from others, and other life-denying practices and call them virtues
- Who hold low, disparaging opinions of human beings
- Cynics
- Strict materialists
- Hyper-rationalists
- Insist that their way is the only right and true way and force it on others
- Just want to get by until they die
Thumotic spirituality is not for everyone and doesn't try to be.
I'll share my view of who thumotic spirituality is for in my next post.
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