{"id":5332,"date":"2010-05-02T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T20:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2011-04-12T09:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:01:01","slug":"spiritual-questing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/mind-body-spirit\/spiritual-questing.html","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Questing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are not weak, sinful, shameful human creatures who have to somehow earn the right to become spiritual. We are Spiritual Beings having a human experience.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Robert Burney, <em>The Dance of Wounded Souls <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Burney is helping me through my own spiritual<strong> <\/strong>quest. &#8220;We are not trapped in a vale of tears because there is no God force. We do not simply exist because of some biological accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Try this one on: &#8220;It is not human needs and desires that cause suffering, it is looking to get those needs fulfilled in someplace where they cannot be fulfilled that causes suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I want to share what I learned from reading this &#8212; I am one of those people who seeks outside validation. I admit it. Never trusting my opinions, judgments, gut instincts at times, or myself &#8212; I look to others to define ME. When this happens, I feel empty inside, like there is a void I choose not to fill.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This makes me into my own victim, a hostage of negative emotions, fears, self-hate. I long to break this cycle by seeking IN-dependence from OUT-side or external forces and people. This is my struggle. I have to look inward to help myself, build ME up before building up others, something I am determined to do through cracking below the surface of &#8220;self-analysis&#8221; into &#8220;self-discovery.&#8221; I hope this helps others, too. (ARG &#8212; there I go again looking outside instead.)<\/p>\n<p>Which books, thoughts, or quotes have helped you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overcoming codependency and external validation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[5842,5844,5843,5840,2214,5841],"cp_author":[],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-body-spirit","tag-codependency","tag-dance-of-wounded-souls","tag-god-force","tag-robert-burney","tag-spiritual","tag-spiritual-beings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spiritual Questing | California Psychics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Overcoming codependency and external 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