27 choices I made, rebuilding my life after religion:
1. Made peace with my religious past. 2. Took responsibility in determining my beliefs through critical thinking, direct experience, and self-reflection. 3. Stopped dividing up the world into "sacred" and "secular.”
1. Made peace with my religious past. 2. Took responsibility in determining my beliefs through critical thinking, direct experience, and self-reflection. 3. Stopped dividing up the world into "sacred" and "secular.”
4. Began trusting my natural abilities, skills and tools to guide and direct my life in a way that is meaningful to me.
5. Started looking past labels and stereotypes, and relating to the deepest reality I knew was present in every human being.
5. Started looking past labels and stereotypes, and relating to the deepest reality I knew was present in every human being.
6. Shifted my mindset about my humanness from being a liability to an asset. 7. Resisted the need to build a persona around being a spiritual person. 8. Explored ultimate reality and life’s existential questions through science, philosophy and psychology.
9. Explored what the natural sciences have to say about the universe and my place in it. 10. Focused on addressing the root causes of my inner suffering.11. Paid attention to my deepest desires and passions.
12. Cast off my fictitious self, and resolved to be an authentic and fully-expressed me.13. Questioned and scrutinized my default assumptions and beliefs about the world.14. Expanded and diversified my relational world beyond my familiar subculture.
15. Resisted creating a new ism out of my latest discovery.
16. Operated with the assumption that every human being knew something I needed to know.
17. Resisted latching onto the latest guru, and began seeing all people as my teachers.
16. Operated with the assumption that every human being knew something I needed to know.
17. Resisted latching onto the latest guru, and began seeing all people as my teachers.
18. Explored new fields and areas of interest that were largely unknown to me. 19. Shifted my focus from the question of life after death to making the most of my life before death. 20. Approached my life as a reality I was free to create.
21. Became interested and involved in the lives of people I encountered naturally along the everyday paths of my life.
22. Became aware of ways I am complicit in the suffering of our world. 23. Let go of religion as a life reference point, either for it or against it.
22. Became aware of ways I am complicit in the suffering of our world. 23. Let go of religion as a life reference point, either for it or against it.
24. Placed more emphasis on simple values such as goodness, kindness and compassion. 25. Incorporated daily practices of self-care. 26. Learned to say "no" to people, requests, expectations and situations that compromised my well-being.
27. Allowed myself to feel joy, happiness, serenity and contentment in my everyday human experiences.
- Jim Palmer #exvangelical #ExChristian
- Jim Palmer #exvangelical #ExChristian
