The Path of Surrender, The Warrior's Path or the Path of Service? (Philosophy)

What are the types of spiritual paths that are available? What type of spiritual path fits my style or way of being in the world? I found Tom Campbell's talk discussing the 3 spiritual paths outlined in this meeting's heading to be quite a detailed look into three definite paths. Here is Tom's YouTube clip describing these 3 paths: 3 Spiritual Paths: Service, Surrender, and Warrior.

Tom explains that the warrior fights for truth, struggles to find the knowledge/truth of his self and others. It is the long path, but seems to be the more definite path. The warrior engages his intellect, makes rational decisions. He develops his intuitive side but works to balance it with his rational side. He struggles/fights with his ego to the end.

The path of surrender is to give everything up to a "higher power". Realise that you are moved as opposed to you doing the moving. This is intuitive dominant and much less so on the intellectual side.

The path of service, is to give up on focusing selfishly on myself, and turning the focus on helping others. Let this be what raises the quality of your consciousness.

What path resonates the most to you? What possibilities do you see in these paths?

Do you prefer to make choices or slavishly follow the decisions that you surrender to?

How do I best serve other? What are the traps in serving others?

How can I work on all three paths concurrently and interactively?

Please come along and bring your own questions, thoughts, feelings and ideas that you feel about these paths.

Here are some notes from last week's meeting:

- What am I seeking for, is it connection, purpose, love?

- There is a story tied up in the feelings, fears and beliefs.

- What is Integrity?

- Can we overcome fear completely or is it intrinsic?

- Is pain what is behind all negative behavior?

- How can people overcome all coping mechanisms? If I indulge in some harmless behavior, but still a waste of my time, how can I identify it as a coping mechanism?

- Are you on the hamster wheel of life, the everyday grind for survival, working hard to keep up a routine?

- Do you fear falling out of your story? How many paradigms are you experiencing in your life? (aka family, work, social paradigms) Do they add to your authenticity or take from it?

- How many times have you felt the "ground shift" beneath you during big changes in your life?

Thanks to Envato AI ImageGen for the accompanying image generated using the prompt: "a warrior surrendering through service to God".

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