Thumotic Living, Part 8: One-of-a-Kind

Thumotic living, living from our heart, is living a unique, one-of-a-kind life. There is only one of each one of us. Our life story, composed of our choices, is like no other. What we create and share no one else does. No one else can. 

We can enrich the lives of others with what only we can create or we can withhold it and keep it to ourselves. The choice is ours.

Let's support each other in living our one-of-a-kind lives. Let's support each other in creating what only we can. Let's fulfill the life-affirming desires of our hearts and enrich the world.

Who is Thumotic Spirituality for? Part 1 of 3

Thumotic spirituality is for those who naturally prefer-

Affirming all life to denying it

Becoming mature rather than childlike

Training and teaching children to entertaining them

Celebrating diversity to suppressing it

Learning over ignorance 

Inner strength over meekness

Being challenged rather than coddled

Self-reliance over dependence on others

Becoming full of spirit rather than poor in spirit

What I Believe: The Thumotics Manifesto, Part 9

I propose the following definition of spirituality: Spirituality is a body of thoughts and practices related to spirit. From the perspective of this definition, there is not one spirituality but rather many spiritualities. For example, there are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Theosophical, Neopagan, and many other spiritualities. Each religion has its own body of thoughts and practices related to spirit.

 

Furthermore, from the perspective of my proposed definition of spirituality, most of what is called spirituality today is not spirituality. It is more accurately called "personal religion." It has little if anything to do with spirit as that which animates, and is usually a personal collection of beliefs and practices culled from different religious and other metaphysical traditions. While some personal religions, like established corporate religions, might have spiritualities, they are not themselves spiritualities.