Material or spiritual? What values are more important to you: material or spiritual? Spiritual values are higher than material ones because
Elizaveta Babanova
Have you noticed that, basically, people are divided into two categories: some strive for realization in the material world, they think about apartments/cars/vacations in Mallorca, and such people are the majority. For others, the main thing is spiritual development, and most often they remain unfulfilled in a financial sense.
Only a few are able to combine these two forces - spiritual development and material success, moving harmoniously in both directions.
What can help us balance these opposing energies within ourselves and balance our entire life?
The answer is personal development.
For many people, the concepts of “personal growth” and “spiritual development” are interchangeable. Is there a difference between them for you?
Which category would you place, for example, prayer? And what about working on your weak character traits?
Is reading spiritual literature “spiritual” or “personal”? Does studying books on spiritual leadership (such as Stephen Covey or John Maxwell) contribute to personal or soul development? But both of these books also talk about material success.
Well, now - the most difficult question. Building a successful business, realizing one's profession, earning significant capital - is this characteristic of spiritually developed people or is it the lot of materialists?
In this article we will find out what personal and spiritual development is, and whether working on oneself can be combined with the desire for material success.
SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS: “WHO AM I?” “WHY AM I HERE?”, “WHAT DO I WANT TO BECOME?”
For me, as for many spiritually developing people, the meaning of life lies in the evolution of the soul.
The animal kingdom is governed by an internal natural mechanism that is not amenable to conscious choice.
Man was given free will to determine the speed and trajectory of his development path.
By studying the spiritual teachings and lives of the prophets, we see what our lives can and should be like. We find a goal that sets us a vector of development.
Most often, this vector depends on geography and traditions characteristic of a given place. In every developed culture there lived or lives a teacher, a spirit seer, whose life serves as an example for his followers.
Enlightened masters from different eras and traditions show us the destination to which sooner or later each of us will come, regardless of which path we choose for this path. We will all become enlightened sooner or later. But for some it will take much longer.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ANSWERS THE QUESTION: “HOW TO BECOME PERFECT?”
If spiritual development answers the question “What should I be?” and “Why?”, then personal development answers the question “How to do this?”
Tools such as maintaining a healthy lifestyle, creating harmonious relationships with other people, and responsible performance of our duties at work help us develop in the right direction.
2 PROBLEMS
If a person develops spiritually, but at the same time he ignores the material world, then one of two things happens:
1. A person begins to live in the “clouds”. Most often this applies to people studying esoteric sciences.
When they come into contact with the subtle worlds, they become so detached from the ground that their families fall apart, they leave their jobs, lose friends, and their whole life “comes apart at the seams.”
People who are passionate about esotericism think that they have made significant breakthroughs in the knowledge of the spiritual world, and that the material world now owes them for this.
The material world lives by its own laws and does not seek to satisfy those who have become more spiritually “advanced”, but continue to ignore material laws.
2. The second option is that a person falls into apathy or, even worse, into depression. Having come into contact with spiritual knowledge, he realizes that both he and the entire world around him are very far from perfect.
He stops believing that his life can become joyful and fulfilling again, he gives up, and for many years he does not see the “light at the end of the tunnel.”
WHERE IS THE EXIT?
The way out of both states is to start doing something for other people, to start benefiting society. Even modern scientists have proven the therapeutic effects of charitable activities.
Our task is to develop spiritually and make the most effective use of the talents with which we came to this earth.
What do you like to do for other people? You can write a blog, feed homeless people or treat animals, or help in educational activities the person who has become your teacher.
You can also build your own business, which will create jobs and provide an opportunity for several (or hundreds and thousands) families to earn money.
The opportunities to make this world a better place are endless, the main thing is to choose what you are passionate about, otherwise charity will turn into an obligation.
After all, it is sincere concern for the world around us that allows our soul to manifest itself in matter. When we work for the benefit of other people and enjoy it, our lives are filled with meaning and happiness.
SPIRITUAL IS PRIMARY
Spiritual development is always primary. As you know, the “soul” leaves the body, and not vice versa.
Without a spiritual vector, people can succeed in achieving goals, in developing their business, but without establishing a connection with their soul, they, having achieved all their material goals, become unhappy.
Surely you know the stories of multimillionaires who committed suicide. They became successful, but having forgotten about the spiritual root, they lost the meaning of existence.
STILL EASIER
If we consider our entire life from the point of view of receiving and giving energy, then everything becomes extremely clear.
We get energy from life: food, sun, air, physical activity, friends, etc. so that we can give it away in work, in caring for our family and other people.
Spiritual development is when we receive energy from above, through study, awareness, meditation.
Personal development is when we give energy by working on ourselves and contributing to the development of society.
Material success is the result of proper exchange of energy with the outside world.
BALANCE OF SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL
Today, more than ever, each of us needs to strive for a balance of spiritual and material.
In India, it is almost impossible not to catch some kind of disease while making a pilgrimage or meditating in its ashrams, because people are too deeply immersed in the spiritual and have forgotten about material things - cleanliness, order, prosperity.
In the USA, it’s the other way around: power and money have become the meaning of life, and society has become deeply unhappy in the pursuit of these values.
Using the example of these countries, we see that a bias in one direction or the other leads to the degradation of society as a whole. The task of leaders today is to combine and balance these two energies within themselves and then pass on the knowledge to everyone else.
Learn to live in harmony with yourself, making the most of your talents for the benefit of people, simultaneously receiving decent financial compensation for their work, and wherein to be focused on a higher goal is a harmonious combination of spiritual and material, yin and yang.
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Department of Education
administration of the city of Lipetsk
MUNICIPAL AUTONOMOUS
GENERAL EDUCATIONINSTITUTION
SECONDARY SCHOOL No. 23
Named after S.V. DOBRINA of LIPETSK
Open class hour - debate
on the topic
“What is more important: material or spiritual values?”
conducted in class 10A on October 24, 2017
Prepared by: Russian language teacher
and literature Kustova I.N.
Lipetsk, 2017
Event type:class hour - debate
Target: creating conditions for teenagers to properly understandlife valuesin order to form a responsible attitude towards them.
Tasks:
education: cultivate love for work, for working people;help everyone become better, convince them that a person must improve himself; to help each student realize himself as an individual, understand his purpose in life;
development: develop the spiritual and moral qualities of students through ideas about their own value and the right to choose their life path;
education: introduce studentswith the conceptvalues of life and with classificationvalues; promote understanding of the differences between the value of material objects and the meaning of spiritual life values; develop a responsible attitude towards one’s own life and the ability to consciously choose the most important life values.
Participants: students of class 10A
Equipment: presentation, videos
Literature:
1. Gerasimova V.A. Cool hour of play. – M.: Sfera, 2003
2. Gritsanov A.A., Skakun V.M. The latest philosophical dictionary. – Mn.: Publishing house V.M. Skakun, 1999
3. Drach G.V. Culturology: textbook. for universities / G.V. Drach, O.M. Shtompel, L.A. Shtompel, V.K. Korolev. – St. Petersburg: Peter, 2011
4. Koturanov L.A., Koturanova N.N. Ethics of self-development. First year of classes: book. for the teacher. – Kaluga: Grif, 2005
5. Morozova L.P. Cool watch. – Volgograd: Corypheus, 2008
Internet resources:
video filmhttps:// youtu. be/ REn 050 wX- Bk
video filmhttps:// www. youtube. com/ watch? v= jeGQHVSPzUg
Plan:
Classroom preparation.
Org moment.
Communicate the topic and goals of the class.
Work on the topic of the class hour.
Summary of the class hour.
Reflection.
Class progress
1. Preparing a class hour.
Selection of materials on the topic of the class using Internet resources.
2. Organizational moment.
3.Communicate the topic and goals of the class hour.
There is probably no person on Earth who does not dream of happiness. Let's imagine our life as a ladder along which we go up, into the future, into adulthood. Your right is to choose what your staircase will be - large or small, what steps it will consist of. Each step is your desires and dreams. And every day gives us the opportunity to rise higher.
The epigraph of our class hour will be a statement from one of the outstanding philosophers: “... like a fable, so life is valued not for its length, but for its content.” (Seneca)
4.Work on the topic of the class hour.
Listen to two parables.
1 parable
A young man was walking along a muddy road and suddenly saw a gold coin in the mud. He bent down and picked it up. I went further in search of other coins. And, indeed, they sometimes came under his feet. This is how his life passed. When he was dying, he, a very old man, was asked what life was. He replied: “Life is a dirt road where sometimes you come across gold coins.”
What is the meaning hidden in this parable? (a meaninglessly lived life).
Did such a life make sense for him?
Parable 2
In one of the countries, no matter which one, there lived an old woman. For many years she walked with a stick along the beach during the height of the summer season. Many people were perplexed and did not understand what she was looking for in the sand, raking it with a stick.
What do you think she was looking for?
Only years later did people find out that for many years she had been walking along the beach for one purpose only - she was collecting pieces of broken glass so that adults and children would not get hurt.
How did you understand this parable?
How are the parables similar?
What were coins to a guy and collecting broken glass to an old lady? - Can this be called values for them?
So what are values?
Values are a philosophical and sociological concept that denotes the positive and negative significance of an object.
Sociologists offer the following classification of values:
vital values: life, health, safety, quality of life,
level of consumption, environmental safety;
economic values: the presence of equal conditions for the manufacturer and favorable conditions for the consumer in the field of goods and services;
social values: social status, hard work, family,
prosperity, gender equality, personal independence, ability to achieve, tolerance;
political values: patriotism, civic engagement, civil liberties, civic peace.
Material values : everything that can be bought, created, built (in other words, that there is an opportunity to see, touch, use).
Spiritual values: something that cannot be seen, tactilely felt, sold or bought. These values are found within every person. For some they have greater, and for others the least importance (these include: freedom, joy, justice, dignity, creativity, harmony, respect, etc.).
What do you think are more important in a person’s life and which help him climb the steps to happiness in life: material or spiritual?
You are offered a list of values. Please read it carefully. If you would like to add something of your own, please add it below on the empty lines.
Check the 10 values that are most important to you personally.
kindnessloyalty
honesty
mutual assistance
Love
friendship
education
house, apartment, dacha
justice
beauty
Liberty
shares of banks and companies
family
children
health
faith
secure old age for parents
communication
automobile
own business
knowledge
creation
jewelry
mercy
hope
real estate abroad
entertainment
conscience
spiritual harmony
yacht
trips
honor
cloth
money
mobile phone
food
Questions:
What values do you think come to the fore most often these days?
What is the difference between material and spiritual values?
Is it possible to do without material values in the modern world? Why?
CONCLUSION: In themselves, such things as a car, an apartment, an expensive telephone, a summer house, a yacht, etc. are good. But if they become an end in themselves, this can be a socially dangerous phenomenon, because on such values we will build a society without prospects - a consumer society, a society of material comfort, an abundance of material goods, a society of irrepressible consumption. It will be a society of self-deception, where neither genuine feelings nor genuine culture are possible.
What is more important for society: spirituality or materiality?
(A moral society can only be built on a spiritual basis. But the material side is also important, only it should be secondary).
Imagine that someone knocked on your door and demanded that you hand over two valuables. What valuables will you give away? Cross them out.
Group game “Creating new civilizations”
Students need to break into groups, mentally transport themselves to the future (to the galactic era when the galaxy will be populated) and imagine that they are going to a new planet that is very similar to Earth. There, each group can start a new civilization.
The students’ task is to transfer the basic values of earthly civilization to a new situation.
Goal of the group: determine which five values participants consider the most important and rank them in descending order of importance. In this case, the group must develop a unified position and explain it.
The modern world is changing and developing very quickly.
Can values change?
Yes,people form values differently. Usually this process lasts a person’s entire life. When we are 15 years old, love, friendship, and education come first. When we are 30 – family, children. When we turn 50 – health, spiritual harmony.
Do you think money is a value nowadays? (yes, material, but not spiritual)
For example, I say: money can buy pills, and you notice: but not health.
Continue my sentences:
For money you can buy a book... (but not wisdom, knowledge and skills)
Money can buy a bodyguard... (but not friendship and understanding)
Money can buy a house... (but not family, care and love)
Money can buy entertainment... (but not happiness)
Video “Spiritual development and material success. How to combine? (6 min 53 sec)
But there is a main value - the value of life.
5.Result of the class hour.
Choice as a conscious vital necessity for people (Chinese parable about choice)
A sage and a disciple are sitting at the gates of their city. A traveler comes up and asks:
– What kind of people live in this city?
– Who lives where you came from? - asks the sage.
– Oh, scoundrels and thieves, evil and depraved.
– “It’s the same here,” answered the sage.
After some time, another traveler approached and also asked what kind of people lived in this city.
– Who lives where you came from? - asked the sage.
– “Wonderful people, kind and sympathetic,” answered the traveler.
– Here you will find the same ones,” said the sage.
– Why did you tell one that scoundrels live here, and the other that good people live here? – the student asked the sage.
– “There are good people and bad people everywhere,” the sage answered him. “It’s just that everyone finds only what they know how to look for.”
The ancients said that every person is a vessel that is filled with content over time. Vessels come in different shapes, just like people, and their internal content depends on us.
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato already in the 4th century BC. e. asserted: “By trying for the happiness of others, we find our own happiness.”
The same idea continues in the 1st century AD. e. Roman philosopher Seneca: “A person who thinks only of himself and seeks his own benefit in everything cannot be happy. If you want to live for yourself, live for others. A person who does good to others and knows how to empathize feels happy.”
6. Reflection.
Poem by Yu. Levitansky “Everyone chooses for himself...”
What is the most important value in life?
It’s true that the most important value is life and love itself.
Video “The value of life is love” (3 min 30 sec)
Man has two worlds:
One - who created us,
Another - which we have been since forever
We create to the best of our ability.
Teacher reading Yuri Levitansky’s poem “Everyone chooses for himself”
Everyone chooses for themselves
A woman, religion, a road.
To serve the devil or the prophet -
Everyone chooses for themselves.
Everyone chooses for themselves
a word for love and for prayer.
A sword for a duel, a sword for battle
Everyone chooses for themselves.
Everyone chooses for themselves
Shield and armor, staff and patches.
The measure of the final reckoning
Everyone chooses for themselves.
Everyone chooses for themselves.
I also choose - as best I can.
I have no complaints against anyone.
Everyone chooses for themselves.
Today I discovered that...
I was surprised that...
I wanted …
Now I will...
Now listen to the parable of the stonemasons.
Three stonemasons work hard in a quarry. The philosopher asked them: what are they doing?
Can't you see: I'm crushing these damn stones! - the first one muttered irritably.
“I earn my living,” the second shrugged.
I'm building a temple! - the third answered proudly.
What do you think is the difference between these stonemasons? Which one of them can be called happy? (these stonemasons walked along the road to happiness. The first will not be happy because he has no goal; the second will be happy as long as he can earn a living. And only the third can be called happy: he sees a big beautiful goal for which he works) .
I wish you in your life not just to crush stones or earn a living, but to build a temple, that is, set goals for yourself and achieve them. Only then will you be truly happy.
And at the end of the class hour, listen to the order of the famous teacher V.A. Sukhomlinsky:
“You live among people. Your every action, your every desire is reflected in people. Know that there is a line between what you want and what you can. Your desires are the joys or tears of your loved ones. Check your actions with your consciousness: are you not causing harm, trouble, or inconvenience to people with your actions? Make the people around you feel good.”
A person’s determination of life goals is one of the main conditions for achieving success. Moreover, it is important not only to set goals, but also to often think that you are capable of achieving them and that you will achieve them.
You should not think about obstacles on the way to your goal and imagine ominous darkness. Focus on the fact that achieving each goal can dramatically improve your life. The more you think about how your goals will change your life for the better, the stronger your desire to realize them will be. A natural desire for specific actions will awaken in you.
If a goal inspires you, then you will in any case begin to act towards achieving it. It doesn’t matter how much time you have to implement it, because you like the path itself and the fact that you feel more and more satisfied with yourself. This state encourages you to act actively, so your level of productivity will only increase.
If you are having difficulty choosing your life goals, you can use examples of other people's goals from the list of 100 human life goals.
100 life goals
Personal goals:
- Find your life's work;
- Become a recognized expert in your field;
- Stop drinking and smoking;
- Make many friends and acquaintances around the world;
- Learn to speak 3 languages fluently, except your native one;
- Become a vegetarian;
- Find 1000 followers of your business/blog;
- Wake up every day at 5 am;
- Read a book a week;
- Travel all around the world.
Family Goals:
- Start a family;
- Make your spouse happy;
- Give birth to children;
- Raise children to be worthy members of society;
- Provide education to children;
- Play a children's wedding;
- Celebrate your own silver wedding;
- Babysit grandchildren;
- Celebrate the golden wedding;
- Gathering for the holidays with the whole family.
Financial goals:
- Live without debts and loans;
- Organize passive sources of income;
- Receive a monthly aggregate stable high income;
- Every year increase savings by 1.5-2 times;
- Own property on the seashore;
- Build a dream house;
- Cottage in the forest;
- Every family member has a car;
- Leave a substantial inheritance to your children;
- Regularly help those in need.
Sports goals:
- Get in shape;
- Run a marathon;
- Do the splits;
- Go diving;
- Learn to surf;
- Jump with a parachute;
- Learn martial art;
- Learn horse riding;
- Learn to play golf;
- Do yoga.
Spiritual Goals:
- Learn the art of meditation;
- Read the 100 best books of world literature;
- Read 100 books on personal development;
- Regularly engage in charity work and volunteering;
- Achieve spiritual harmony and wisdom;
- Strengthen your will;
- Learn to enjoy every day;
- Experience and express gratitude every day;
- Learn to achieve your goals;
- Do charity work;
Creative goals:
- Learn to play guitar;
- Learn to draw;
- To write a book;
- Write blog entries every day;
- Decorate the interior of the apartment to your liking;
- Make something useful with your own hands;
- Make your own website;
- Learn public speaking and not experience stage fright;
- Learn to dance and dance at parties;
- Learn to cook deliciously.
Travel destinations:
- Travel around the cities of Italy;
- Relax in Spain;
- Travel to Costa Rica;
- Visit Antarctica;
- Spend a month in Taiga;
- Live 3 months in America;
- Go on a road trip around Europe;
- Go to Thailand for the winter;
- Go on a yoga tour to India;
- Go on a trip around the world on a cruise ship;
Adventure Goals:
- Play in a casino in Las Vegas;
- Fly in a hot air balloon;
- Ride a helicopter;
- Explore the ocean in a submarine;
- Go kayaking;
- Spend a month in a tent camp as a savage;
- Swim with dolphins;
- Visit medieval castles around the world;
- Eat mushrooms from shamans in Mexico;
- Go to a transmusic festival in the forest for a week;
Other goals:
- Send your parents on vacation abroad;
- Get to know a famous person you admire in person;
- Live every day like it’s your last;
- Organize a positive flash mob in the center of Moscow;
- Get a second or third higher education;
- Forgive the offense to everyone;
- Visit the holy land;
- Meet new people every week;
- Spend a month without the Internet;
- Gain cosmic consciousness.
- Find a mentor;
- Change someone else's life for the better;
- See the northern lights;
- Grow a tree;
- Climb to the top of the mountain;
- Overcome your main fear;
- Create new healthy habits;
- Ride a roller coaster;
- Take part in a fancy dress masquerade in another country;
- Become a mentor to someone.
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WITH thief rich Today only the lazy do not dream. There is nothing wrong with this desire. For some God Fellowship is material wealth, for others it is SPIRITUAL realization. The point is that neither one nor the other alone brings happiness to a person. Spiritual and material are two sides of the same coin.
I believe that it's all about balance, when material and spiritual wealth are harmoniously combined.
Most people have a word wealth causes conflicting opinions. Meaning of the word God atstvo is written in every dictionary, but what is not written there is that at the root of this word is the word “ God" Let's look at the origin of this word. We see that the ancient Slavic root GOD in a word God Attachment means “endowing God tatstvo", "bestower of well-being". It is these characteristics that must be endowed with true God this man!
Most people are often tormented by the question: “Well, why is the world so unfair? There are people who have a house, an expensive car, a yacht - all the best and most expensive, while others survive from penny to penny, barely making it to their salary!” You and I live in a material world and it is natural that we want a certain set of material benefits for ourselves. And that's NORMAL! But the fact is that each of us determines for ourselves how to feel more comfortable in life; poor or God atym. It's ours consciousness leads to either prosperity or poverty.
Of course you didn't choose consciously be poor or constantly struggle for existence, but your beliefs, deeply rooted in the unconscious, again and again create the same picture of your reality in life.
As children, we simply believed everything we saw and heard, considering it a fact. We learned and created our reality by observing our immediate environment. We adopted the faith of our family, school, friends, only by constantly being in this environment and perceiving their beliefs. If you got the reality that money is never enough, what God If they are dishonest and greedy, then this reality begins to reproduce and repeat situations with a lack of money.
God Rich people choose the philosophy of the master of life - the creator and giver, and the poor - the philosophy of the slave - the performer and consumer. God Attitude reflects a person’s internal state, his values and beliefs. It is only a mirror of what lives in his inner world. We create our world based on our inner values and preferences.
A person who has a lot of money, but does not have a spiritual core, or a spiritually educated person, but who has serious material difficulties, cannot equally be considered God aty.
A person who has a lot of financial resources is not yet God This is a man, but just a collector of money.
And a millionaire who is disappointed in his personal life, and a major businessman suffering from a serious physical illness, and a banker whose children are deteriorating, unfortunately, God you can’t call them either.
I want you to understand once and for all a simple truth that I repeat repeatedly: the external is a reflection of the internal. In other words, money is the external form of spiritual matter. God Attitude is not the cause, but the consequence of how you live and what desires lead you through life. For real God You will become a person - materially and spiritually - only when you fully reveal your personal potential.
Anna Del
Oddly enough, it has become quite fashionable to talk about what values are more important for a person. There is such a thin line between the two “fires” that it is sometimes difficult to put one or the other in first place. To set priorities, you will have to understand and study in depth what the main differences between spiritual values and material ones are. Often people get confused, characterizing their actions as committed for the good, but in fact they are driven by the material side.
What are material and spiritual values for a person?
Without material and spiritual values, not a single human life can be imagined. No matter how much someone chases money and expensive things, he will always need understanding, care, self-worth in relationships, mental peace, love. And with the loss of material significance, existence becomes unbearable, the spiritual side ceases to bring happiness.
Material assets are everything that can be bought, created, built. In other words, what is possible to see, touch, use. They buy clothes, cars, medicines. Companies, factories, industries are being created. Houses, shops, schools are being built. Everything that is in an office or apartment also refers to material assets.
Spiritual values are something that cannot be seen, tactilely felt, sold or bought. These values are found within every person. For some they matter more, and for others they matter least. These include: freedom, joy, justice, dignity, creativity, harmony, respect. The list can continue indefinitely; everyone determines for themselves what is most significant.
For a clearer understanding, you should study examples of material assets.
- Not a single person can survive without food, water, or comfortable living conditions. To provide this for yourself, you will have to earn and spend money.
- Books, paintings, sculptures are more of a spiritual value, but in order to possess them, you need to pay.
- Clothes, medicines, cars are also integral parts of the material world. Without them, a person does not feel happy, becomes doomed (in case of illness), alienated (dressing in cast-offs, having unsuitable transport).
Examples of spiritual values
- No matter how strong the satisfaction from material life, the soul will be drawn to mutual understanding, the search for true happiness, love.
- Without love, even a strong, steely nature will eventually wither and lose the meaning of life. Procreation and raising children become one of the most important spiritual values.
- A creative person, unable to do what she loves, loses her purpose, doing unloved work only to satisfy primary needs.
How to understand what is more important for a particular person? This will become clear once you find out what goals he sets for himself. But there is a catch in that the achievement of one value always leads to the completion of another.
For example, a person sets his goal to create a solid bank account, build a large business, and gain fame. He goes towards his dreams, without sparing and turning a blind eye to the feelings of other people. The priority is only material wealth. Having reached your goal, you feel a lack of something else very important. Of course, the spiritual component. During the races, he did not think about starting a family, he forgot about his parents. And having suddenly lost all his fortune, he is left with nothing at all. No friends, no money, no happiness.
Why does one person value only money, while another is content with little? The root of all problems or successes is education. The child’s ability to find a balance between material and spiritual depends on how educated the parents are. By buying whatever the child wants at every whim, he becomes confident that everything in life comes for free. As an adult, he will need a job where he will expect someone to work for him.
Therefore, gifts should not be given to stop whims, but to give the child the opportunity to receive them, for example, for good behavior or a grade. Pocket money should also be awarded for certain activities. And when the desire to spend them arises, the child will remember how hard he earned them, and what work he will have to do to get them again.
What to answer if suddenly asked to formulate the main differences between spiritual values and material ones?
For every person, one thing is more important than the other. This is due to what he lacks in a particular period of life. If everything is fine with his family and relationships, but bad with money, the emphasis will be on the latter. The desire for mental balance, good deeds, and respect for others speaks of a complete spiritual state. Such people do not chase fame and big money; they are happy here and now. Of course, education plays a huge role here too.
As a rule, a person becomes happy by learning to maintain a balance between materiality and spirituality. This can take many years, or even a lifetime. The world dictates its own rules - overtake others, beat others, become the most popular. A person lights up when he sees other people's successes. He makes his way, forgetting about morality and ethics. It is important to understand what is truly necessary and what you can do without, while remaining cheerful and ambitious. But they say correctly, what kind of attitude you want towards yourself, do the same with others.
Self-realization, respect for people, observance of public morality is a set of material and spiritual values. The main thing is that the awareness of your most significant desires comes as soon as possible. Without losing the most fleeting thing - time.
The main differences between spiritual values and material ones was last modified: December 17th, 2015 by Elena Pogodaeva
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