Journey to Fullness: Lecture 1

Rev. Kim shares an insightful lecture on the beginning stage of the Journey to Fullness.

Recorded live at the retreat held on June 26-28, 2015. The first 2 minutes of the recording is very staticky, please bear with the noise, it gets better!

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Introduction

It’s wonderful to have you here. This is our sixth retreat on the happiness seminar, so as we look at the slides, these are the topics that we have covered. First the pursuit of happiness. We look at the dynamics of happiness by using four chapters from Philippians. We can break down happiness. 50 percent you’re born with it, 10 percent comes from your circumstances and 40 percent is what you do about it. St Paul’s main principle states that your happiness comes from your belief system and God will bring it to completion. That was St Paul’s belief even though he went through difficult circumstances he was able to be happy despite his circumstances. And the second lecture we look at the meaning of life and we reflected on suffering and the third lecture we look at the happiness that comes from the relationship.

Relationships we make

There is two kinds of relationships, “I-thou” relationship and “I-it” relationship. Most of our happiness from the “I-thou” relationship rather than “I-it” relationship. In “I-it” relationship you use the other person for yourself so “I” is the most important so “it” is just an object for your own happiness. Everything else is a becomes just an object for your own happiness, but that doesn’t really give you happiness. But most of our business relationship and everything is “I-it” relationship. But “I-thou” relationship is you give up yourself for the sake of relationships. So, in “I-thou” relationship important thing is not I nor thou. It is the dash that connects I and thou, so the and is important. So, through that, we experience true happiness.

And then we looked at, change, last year, and then this year we are going to look at the journey to fullness. Think of it as a, for most of you, a vacation, with a spiritual reflection. It’s a good enough place for you to have a vacation time away, but with a spiritual reflection component, I hope that. Spiritual reflection, when can you do that? Really, I don’t want to live like an animal, you know, doing all kinds of things. Just work and eat and enjoy and a pleasure and whatever. I don’t want to live like an animal because I’m not an animal. I’m more than animal.

I want to live meaningfully and then to live meaningfully, spiritual reflection is very much part of it, because we, human beings are not just a social being or just a biological being. We human beings are a spiritual being. And if you’re a spiritual being then without spiritual reflection, how can we live a meaningful spiritual life.

Just before the lecture I was talking to John and go, how’s your life? And you’re busy. And he said, “really, too busy you know, it’s not good. And that is a more modern life. In a modern life, the word busy is what you experience all the time. Doesn’t matter who you are, busy, whether you’re a professional or a mother’s staying home or ministers, religious people, people busy me too just, we’re busy. Being busy really reflects my life. So many things to do. So many things to take care of, such as work, taking care of kids and so on. Every day is filled with a schedule.

Without my journal, I cannot survive. It’s my second Bible. One day I left. Right? Do you keep bothering? Okay? Is he okay? Yeah. This is my second Bible, without this, I cannot go anywhere because one day I left this at home. I feel so vulnerable. I can’t do anything. I couldn’t even concentrate or even focus because I don’t know what’s going to happen, maybe email, maybe a text or maybe somebody’s trying to call me in case of an emergency, whatever. This is my second bible and all schedules are within me without looking at what I have every day. I don’t know what I have because so many I can’t just remember anymore. We are so busy. Every day is filled with a schedule and we must also squeeze in what we want to do with the time leftover. If there’s any time left over, if there’s no time left over, we make sure that there is, there’s time left over for golf or for something that we want to do.

Spend some Time for Reflection

So, this kind of retreat is a good opportunity to just forget about everything. To just forget about your life in Toronto. Just forget, forget about everything. Just enjoying each other, enjoy God. Enjoy the nature. When can you do that? You don’t even see the earth, you know, you don’t even touch the earth, many times. So, enjoy, some quiet time. Maybe today and tomorrow. Put your life into reflection mode instead of just talking. I mean talking is good have good talks. But, instead of just social life, why don’t you have time for yourself, the spiritual aspect of your life? Don’t think of this as just another activity to check off, be more focused on being in touch with yourself. Maybe. Who am I? What am I going through, how do I feel? What am I feeling? Do like my life? Do like my relationships. Do like what I do? What is bothering me? This morning devotion we talked about it. Do I worry about something? Why do we worry about these things? Or do we have some issues or challenges, family issues or family problems? Just think about it. Or you have personal problems. Health or finance or a relationship, you know, sit down. Is the best way, to just emotionally react to my situation or is there a better way to respond to my situations, in my life? So, things like that, I hope that we can have some, moments of reflection, you know, you may not actually get an answer, but what is more important is direction rather than rather than the answer, if you find a direction, the answer will come. So, the answer will not come immediately.

At least I hope that you can find some direction, for, your issues and problems. Doing spiritual reflection is important to keep our sanity in this very busy life. We are living, we are facing all kinds of challenges and problems. We worry about our future, our career, and some of us shared already that I’m making a career change, professional change. I’m very, very scared. What that might mean, what if, I don’t get a good professional career, then how am I going to have a material basis for my living, for some others. You take care of your aging parents or ill parents and you’re very worried about your sick, parents, some of you have children, that you must take care of and some of your children may have some personal issues and problems, or some of you have a newborn baby, and then you’re struggling with a sleep or lack of sleep. And then, Oh God, how am I going to raise this child in this cruel world? And some of you are thinking about who my future partner will be, for me, to share my life with. So, all these things are issues. And some of you may simply feel that so lethargic and you suffer from meaninglessness and pointlessness of life as stress may have been piled up and you feel totally defeated. Or some of you are eager to have more, deeper spiritual life, deeper relationship with God.

How can you deal with all these things without spiritual insight and spiritual understanding? I think spirituality will help us greatly to restore passion, joy, and meaningfulness of life. I mean, recreation helps us deal with our stress, so we need recreation. But recreation can only do so much. Some of the stress you can be relieved off, but recreation can only do so much. You have deeper problems you cannot deal with it even with recreation. We need to cultivate our spirituality to deal with the deeper challenges of life. You know, the people are becoming smarter and smarter and they realize that a lot of people realize that our material life is not good enough anymore. So even whether you’re Christian or not, modern people have found the importance of spirituality. They’re not religious necessarily. The found the importance of spirituality for their healthy living or good living, meaningful living. They’re not any more satisfied with material success and all that. And even in our church, some of you are really reducing, you know, houses and all that. And because they believe to live with that kind of luxury, you must work that much more and all that stuff that’s not worth it.

So, some modern people, whether you’re a Christian or not, they have the wisdom that I need to cultivate a spirituality there. So, you see yoga clubs everywhere, Meditation Groups and book clubs and all that. All that. If exercises for your physical body, then these groups are for your mental and spiritual body for your mind and for your soul. Even modern people, whether you even non-Christians, they, do that. The person that I know, she’s a Christian, but occasionally she comes to our church too. But she, not Christian, she says she’s not Christian, but she comes to our church and she enjoys it. I know she went to Guatemala or Chili. I’m not sure which one. She’s a yoga teacher and went to a yoga retreat. So, there’s a beautiful mountain. You go there and then have meditation and quiet timing. I will show you some, sometimes here just over there and then sit down looking over the lake, you know. See there’s another one. Oh yeah. No. So the importance of spirituality.

You know, human beings are not stupid. You live with luxury for a while. You realize that the luxury doesn’t satisfy you anymore. You need deeper things to satisfy you. And so, we Christians do them. Meditation on our faith, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. That’s what you’re doing right now here. So, I hope that you use this opportunity to do that during this weekend. This year’s theme is the journey to fullness. This is interesting to see life as a journey. I got two slides for that. That is what I took ours. When we pray a prayer for the Santiago Camino trip, which, which place was that? James garden in the winter. And that is Santiago. We went to Santiago Camino for one weekend.

Monotonous Routine vs Journey

So, journey. When we say life is a journey, what does it mean? What do we mean by that? Of course, it’s a metaphor, life is not a journey, life is like a journey. It’s a metaphor, but when you use a metaphor, you do it because it carries certain meetings. So, when we say that life is a journey, what meaning does it communicate? You know, we use metaphor to communicate something abstract, something that there’s hard to describe or define. You use a metaphor. Something is like something, for example, you’re like an angel or you’re like a flower. Then, you know, you, you carry certain meaning about a person. Then maybe we say life is a journey. What the same me? I mean, we can use a different metaphor at least three metaphors I could come up with to describe modern life. Life can be like a hamster wheel. And when we say life is hamster’s wheel, what does that tell us? Every day seems to be the same routine.

You wake up in the morning, go to work and on the weekend you kind of have downtime and it’s too short and on Monday morning you must go to work like crazy. And in doing the same thing repeatedly. The movie Groundhog Day depicts that very well. You wake up in the morning, you go through the same pattern, same route. You know, when I look at it, look at myself, I take the same road and I got the same coffee shop and I do exactly the same thing. Almost like Groundhog Day. Every day is the same thing. It describes the meaningless repetition of life. If you cannot go, go ahead with your life because of your fear, you live like that.

If you don’t change because of your fear, you’ll just go around and round and round like that. Twenty years, 30 years, 40 years will pass by and then your life is over. What we’ve done, I can see life in that way. The second picture that I see is you can see life as a conveyor belt. The second one, the entry level into middle management, senior manager. You go up, but it’s already programmed. You know, that there are a little bit more scary pictures. Oh, my goodness. You go to hell if you keep going down. You know, it doesn’t repeat itself at the same place. It goes somewhere, but the destiny and path are already decided. You don’t have much control over its direction or destiny. We are moving forward, but not by our will or intention. What I must do is already programmed for me. I don’t have much choice. This metaphor shows life that is trapped in an already fixed pattern. time and space, we are trapped, or we can see their picture.

We can see life like Sisyphus in a mythology. Start there. What happened? That’s the next picture. Next slide. How come? Okay. Sisyphus is a Greek mythology; this man rolls a big huge boulder to the up to the mountain. And then as you get to the peak, the rock rolls down to the bottom. You go down and pick it up and roll it up again. And at the top, it goes back down again. And I know this man he had a restaurant, he made lots of, not lots of money but enough money. And then he invested all that money for a retirement fund in stock. And then a few years ago, there was a stock crash. He lost all of them, he lost all of it. All is immigrant life. He saved money working so hard without having a vacation just for preparing for the retirement fund. And then it just disappeared. So, he is back to zero with my congregation. And that is kind of a, we can see life. I mean we did all that and at one point you lose everything.

And then sometimes life is like that. So, when we see life as a journey, we see a very different picture from those pictures that I showed you. When we say life is a journey, it has purpose, direction and process. These three things are part of journey, purpose, direction, process. You must have a clear purpose for the journey. What is your life’s purpose? What is your unique purpose in life? And you must set the direction in trying to achieve that purpose. And I don’t believe that purpose can be making money. I think we have a greater purpose. I don’t think the purpose is just to enjoy it. We have a greater purpose. God called us for a certain purpose in life, not just for myself, for humanity, for others, for the church, for God. And then if you don’t find that purpose, I don’t know whether we can do even journey. So first we must find purpose and if you found a purpose, then you must have a direction. What am I going to? How am I going to serve this purpose or fulfill that purpose? And then there is a process that you must take. So, when we say life is a journey, we are saying very intentional living. You don’t live life because it’s there. You don’t climb a mountain because it’s there. You intentionally choose to live a certain life.

So, you are an active agent in choosing what kind of life you’re going to live. You’re not going to just live life because life is given, circumstances given to you. This is kind of life I’m going to live. So, then I must cut down that part of it and choose to live. And that is empowerment. When we say the life is a journey, it is empowerment. I decide what kind of life I’m going to live. I don’t live life as it is given. I want to choose what kind of life I live, where there are some 40 years, 50 years, six years, seven years, eight years. This is one life, and this is the kind of life I’m going to let you choose. And then you set the direction and then you make the process of it.

You know, some of you love to travel. And when you travel, you experienced something new, all the times, what your experience is never the same. You may go to the same place twice, but what you experienced there is very, very different. Each time I went to Paris three times, but every time it was different is it is never like on a conveyor belt. Unpredictable, mysterious, but fun. Not always pleasant, maybe, but still memorable. So, it is wise to spend money on travel, a wiser than buying things because you buy experience.

I was reading this article, the science of why you should spend your money on experiences, not things. It was written by Dr. Thomas Gilovich, of Cornell University. Here’s, here’s been studying the question of money and happiness for over two decades. This is what he said. We buy things to make us happy and we succeed, but only for a while. New things are exciting to us at first, but then we adapt to them while they’re happening from material purchases diminishes over time. Experiences become an ingrained part of our identity. You know, when you buy a good tv, after a while you don’t even feel it’s a good tv. You won’t really feel this, you know, new one when you buy a new car, the same thing. You drive it and after a while, you even forget that you are driving a really, really, I don’t know. Maybe if you buy really, good car, you may feel every day Vroom Vroom.

I don’t know if you know that. Yeah. So, you know, whenever I go on a mission in different places, I always experienced something new. You know, I went to several places, South Africa, Malawi, Brazil, Madagascar, Kazakhstan, China, and other places. Every place was so different. People I met or different enough. Funny thing is I met some Korean, secondary or third generation Koreans, second generation, third generation Koreans in Kazakhstan, in China, in Japan are all different. They all look like Russian and Chinese and Japanese. Every place you go to you have a different experience. Whenever I did that mission, the journey transformed me and challenged how I will think, and in that way,  it shaped my identity. So sometimes you know, the shorter mission is better than just vacation. On vacation, you go to one place and then come back. But when you go shorter mission, you experienced something different. What I experienced there is ingrained in me. It will always be there as a memory, but not just as a memory, even when the memory is faded away, what that experienced it to me will remain deep in my soul.

That was what happened to the disciples. When they met Jesus, the experience was so deep and profound that it changed their lives. Gospel was written in such a way that it is a journey of the disciples who met Jesus. To discover that life is a journey you don’t need. You don’t need to go to Kazakhstan, you don’t need to go far, far away, place right here in your life. You can experience their life is a journey. Jesus never went to any place other than Jerusalem and Galilee, 150 kilometres. That’s all he travelled shorter than from here to Toronto is about 200 kilometres. Of course, Jesus walked so much longer than our journey. But Jesus didn’t go or Rome or any, exotic places to experience their life is a journey, right in his own circumstances. He experienced that life was a journey. I hope that you take life. A life is a journey seriously. This journey’s seriously an intentionally. Life is more than a hamster’s wheel. More than the conveyor belt. It must be otherwise too depressing. Why do you live? Kill yourself. Show up and now we’re sad. Why do you live? kill yourself. If life is like a conveyor belt or if life is just like a hamster wheel, what’s the meaning of just going on? kill yourself. So, life must be more than that. And I refuse to live like a hamster wheel or a conveyor belt.

Life is a journey and journey to fullness. Whether you take it intentionally or not, the fact that life is journey does not change. Every place you go to, every person you meet, every experience you have will have a profound impact on your life. It will shape your identity and your destiny. You know, I don’t know where I read it, but this or what I got and it’s beautiful. So, I so I cannot tell you who’s, who said it. Every thought. We have, every decision we make, every action we, there’s song, every step I take every wasn’t his song, right? Da, da Da da Da da Da da Da da, right? Yeah, please. Okay. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Every thought we have, every decision we make, every action we take, every emotion we can shape our behaviour. Every response we make to the world around us, every relationship we enter, every reaction we have towards the things that surround us and impinged upon our lives. All these things, little by little, are shaping us into being. How true that is.

Identity and Transformation

The people that you meet, new people that you meet, the new relationship you enter a new experience that you have, it all kind of makes you who you are. It shapes you. You are not completely formed yet. Your identity is not completely fixed yet you’re being formed and being reformed and being transformed. That’s what life is. Journeys like you’re continuously being formed, reform and transform and depending on who you meet, depending on what you did do and depending on what experience you have. As you look back, as I’m looking at, I’ll be able to see the path to have walked on and then I say to myself, that is the path that I took, but when I look for and try to look at the path, it’s not visible. I can’t see it. What path am I going to take? And from here, maybe that path is not there yet. I need to make that path. From this point on, I can see the path behind me. Ah, this is the pathway to but the path I had on me is not written yet. It’s not paved yet. It is you who must pave it. It is you that must make it and you must intentionally make it. You cannot just, okay, somebody can you please make a path for me so there I can walk. That’s a wimpy way of looking at life. You must look at it and create and pave the path. What kind of life you want to live.

If you take our life journey more seriously, how much more meaningful and enriching our experiences maybe? Yeah, but as you look at it, it is not you who take the path to who make that spiritual journey. You allow God from now on to shape your journey. Can you do that instead of you create your own path? Can you allow room for God to shape that journey from now on so far? If you have worked so hard to shape your own journey from now on, do you have enough room for God, for allowing God to shape that journey for you? God will shape the journey for you, my friends. The real journey is not what happens outside. The real journey is what happens within us. What we are talking about is not what happened on the outside, such as having a new child, new baby, changing your job and career, moving and buying a new house, having children go away for school, beating a significant new person and so on. That’s what happens on the outside. But what’s happening on the inside, that’s the journey when you just had a little baby. What happened on the inside?

You know, when I share already with you when Grace was born, she had a really difficult time to survive. My wife was in a kind of she was in an unconscious level. She couldn’t even see the baby. I was the one who went to the room by myself and she was in an incubator and she had, I don’t know how many needles, her whole body was filled with needles I don’t know exactly what those. And then when I looked at those needles, you know, my heart, he ached. He came in tremendous pain, the little baby. Instead of being in the arms of mothers or fathers, you know, gentle, comfortable, the hand that in the incubator with needles and I was thinking about the nail on the cross. I was thinking about Jesus being nailed an on the cross. So what’s happening on the outside is not as important as what’s happening inside. If you ever a little baby, probably you learn compassion patience even sacrificial, painful, loving you don’t mind that. You know what love is? I think I told you, then I talked to Joshua and then, yeah, I gave him something and, and then yeah, I can give you everything that I have a 10. And then he said, now I know what you’re talking about, you know because he has his own son. Yeah. So, when you have a baby, what is happening inside of you? That’s what’s more important than what happens on the outside. So a real journey is what happens on the inside, how they affect what happened on the outside, how they affected you internally. Did he make you a happier person and why or did it make you think about your life in you in a new way? How did that change the way you think about your life? Did it open your eyes so that you can see new things about your life and God? Did it make you think, why I have lived all this time with this narrow and suffocating attitude?

What is happening outside affects what is happening inside and we need to reflect on what is happening inside. The fact is we can see what is happening outside easily, but what is happening inside is hard to see are too lazy to see it or we are too scared to see it. We don’t even think about what is happening inside us. How many times do you really think what is happening inside you? Many times, we don’t even think about what is happening inside us. We’re just busy doing outside, so this kind of opportunity you come, and I think about what is happening inside. If he only knows on our person, Gary, we are living only half of life. If we focus on inner life, we’ll get to know our inner self better and the inner self is as real as our outer self, but it is harder to see, harder to hear and harder to understand our inner self. There’s a person in the Bible you Nicodemus. He was a well-educated man, rich, powerful, religious and everything he had on the outside, so our men, he was almost perfect, but when Jesus met, what did he say? You must be born again. In other words, start your journey again with your inner person. What is happening inside of you? You must start new, born again, so Jesus is talking about, not an outer person, but the inner person.

One Person, Two People

We have two self’s outer person and the inner person that what St Paul said. For which because we faint not, but though our outer man perishes at the inner man is renewed day by day. It’s a King James version and NRSV says.  So, we do not lose heart even though our outer nature is wasting away. Our inner nature is being renewed day by day. The scripture consistently says that happiness resides in the inner person, not the outer person, not only the scripture but a lot of spiritual people, whether they’re Christians or not. They all say that real happiness resides in the inner person. Most of you here will conceptually agree that that is true, but we naively believe this is not. I think, naive belief. We naive only believe that if our outer person is okay, our inner person will be okay. Our parents teaching their children immigrant parents, they only focused on outer man our outer self. Work hard, study hard, get a good job. It’s all about the outer person. Then you’ll be happy. They naively believe that if your outer person is okay, then your inner person will be okay. If your outer person is happy, then your inner person, will be happy, so we learned to focus on our outer person. We get a good career going, beautiful home. We make enough money to be comfortable. Nothing wrong with all of those, but it is wrong. If you think that these things will magically be translated into inner satisfaction, no, the happiness of our person will not automatically translate into the happiness of the inner person. That assumption is wrong

When you read Paul’s life or other disciples life after meeting Jesus, their outer person became worse. They went through so much persecution, difficulties and hardship, but their inner person became renewed, tremendously. so outer person and the inner person they are not necessarily together. Our inner person is much more complex than our outer person. If we, if we like, this morning’s breakfast was good, Huh? Yeah. That was good. And you know, said the highlights of the all the retreats are good food. It is, it is good food. If we eat good food, our outer person enjoys it. If you go to an exotic place and our outer person will say, Oh, nice, luxurious, but not necessarily the inner person. The inner person can be still sad, unsatisfied unhappy. The inner person cannot be satisfied with things like eating good food and buying good things. We cannot simply say that our outer person controls or determines the condition of our inner person, but we focus too much on the outer person. If the inner person will be okay

Today in the morning reflection. Bob, you lead a very, very good morning devotion today. Thank you. He was our leader, our leader, and he was so gentle and gave people time to reflect and meditate. We meditate on to not worry about tomorrow. Jesus’ message, and it said, your body’s more important than clothes while reading it. This thought came to me. All this body is your real self and the clothes are your present yourself, who you are and who you present to be. You were clothes to show who you are, but the body is, Jesus said, is more important than clothes. Who you are is more important than who you present to be, and Jesus said, you’re much, much more valuable than all these he’s talking about wherever you are, you’re much, much more valuable than anything in the world. If we focus only on outer self, we don’t see the value of who we are. What did Jesus say? The Kingdom of God is where the Kingdom of God is within you. This is what Jesus said, neither shall they say, low here or low there for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you, so in you, what do you have? You have the kingdom not on the outer person, but in the inner person.

The image of God is carved not on the outer person. The image of God is carved on your inner person. When your inner person, he’s happy, he’s all right. Even though difficulties come, you’ll be all right. You’ll be taken care of. Do not worry. If your inner person is strong, you’ll be able to overcome all the challenges that you face in your life. Find the kingdom within you. That’s our journey. Finding the kingdom. What St Paul. What do you have in you? You have a treasure. He said, this is what St Paul said, but we have this treasure in jars of clay jars on the outer person, but in the inner person we have treasure so that it may be made clear that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us, and how many times we completely ignore what’s going on in the inner person, our journey, his journey of finding kingdom, finding treasure within us. That’s what salvation is. I hope that you can all find that beautiful treasure within you. Until then, all your efforts will go into proving yourself how valuable you are. You don’t need to prove to yourself how valuable you are. You already are very valuable. Jesus said you are more precious than the whole world.  

Jesus died for you. that much you are precious for the son of God to die for you. That much of your precious. In that sense, because your journey is to discover our true inner self. {At Carr} said, God, is at home. You’re the one who went out. God is home. You’re the one who went out. Prodigal son’s stories fair much that. So, journeys journey to come back home to yourself. You went out, you need to come back home to yourself. Unfortunately, we don’t see what’s inside of us, so at this retreat, even though it is hard, practice it. Try to see what’s your inner person. Have quiet time. Walk on your, have a coffee and think about what your heart tells you. Pray if you can, whatever you do, be in touch with your inner self. At first, you’ll have a hard time. You don’t even know what you’re doing. You’ll hear nothing at first, but slowly you’ll be able to hear something truthful about yourself. So, prepare your inner self. My friends. I really hope that nothing bad happens to you. Nothing bad happens to you. I truly prayed it and I truly wish that and hope that, but the thing is life is not like that. Nothing bad can happen. So, I don’t want to live life wishing that nothing happens. That’s a weak life.

That’s kind of your waiting. You’re just wishing for the lottery. You know. What is the chance that nothing bad will happen in your life? What is important is instead of just wishing that nothing bad happens in your life. You prepare your inner self so that when something bad happens, you know how to deal with it, but if you’re not prepared but nothing bad happened, something bad happens, you collapsed, so I really wish that nothing bad happens to you but living with that wish is weak life. That’s not what Jesus taught. Even something bad happens now it’s good, good. Everything is good, but even then, something bad happens, I know how to deal with it. To do that inner-self has to be trained. Discipline can handle. It must be strong, then you can handle it. Then bad things happen. Good, good things happen. I can handle it. I’m not fearful. I’m not scared anymore of my life. Anything can happen in any situation. I can deal with it. That’s what Saint Paul said. I learned to be content in all I do. Whether I’m hungry or well fed, I can do all with God who makes it possible. That inner person. If you have that, then your life will be much, much more confident and handle the challenges. You can risk more and then you can move on. That’s why I’m saying the inner person is that important to build and cultivate that inner person in your life.

Reflection

Later, I’m going to share three things about what really makes a journey not possible, because of three things in our inner person. What three things are bothering us to stop us from taking a journey seriously. So that’s what I’m going to share tonight. So today we talked about the journey is not journey on the outer person, but the journey on the inner person and the journey are finding treasure, kingdom and value within us and be strong. And then what are the things, our false self that we create for ourselves? Tonight, I’m going to talk about the false self-false inner self than, or you can, you can say the outer self, a false self that we create for us.