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Hermann Kuhn
One of the essential characteristics of this process is to always break up static situations that restrict our growth2. This mechanism provokes us to open up to ever new experiences and to unfold an ever growing, more comprehensive understanding of reality.
It is not the main purpose of our reality to give permanence to material components that may accompany our actions, but to stimulate us to always seek out new fields of experience. Whatever - positive or negative - circumstances we find ourselves in will lose their importance as soon as we gained optimal insight from them. When this happens, they cease to capture our interest and fall off automatically. 3
Once we clearly understand this basic function of our reality, we may easily direct our attention and energy towards the growth-process instead of striving for an illusionary and fleeting stability in our material environment. This understanding enables us to interpret the purpose of any change within us or outside as an alignment towards something
2 and also to stall actions that are detrimental to our development 3 This is the reason why the accumulation of material objects - as it
is propagated by the modern media - hardly ever produces the promised permanent satisfaction. After the initial joy of buying something wears off, we often are disappointed how little the purchase of a new thing does effect our happiness. All too soon a feeling of unfulfilled desire prompts us to again crave new experiences and objects.
People able to fulfill all their material desires, but lacking any orientation beyond matter, often lose themselves in activities that have no effect on their development (i.e. the unshackled accumulation of material objects or money, charitable activities without real inner engagement, participation in social circles that are directed towards superficialities etc.). The feeling of boredom and meaninglessness of material existence that often surrounds this type of people is an excellent proof that reality is directed towards inner growth and not towards the stability of our outer environment.
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