SPIRITUALITY AND SELF-ESTEEM.

Here you will listen to two wonderful speeches by Dr. Abraham Twerski about self-esteem as an important pillar of personal fulfillment and about spirituality.
I really recommend them to everybody, especially to teenagers. It doesn’t matter your culture or beliefs, you will find in these speeches wisdom and strength to develop the best of yourself.

I invite you to take the necessary time to listen to the universal and deep wisdom expressed by Dr. Abraham Twerski. His speech will help you to think about and to look for answers to questions such as:

• What are the differences between people and the rest of animals?
• What does self-esteem have to do with spirituality, overcoming difficulties, helping ourselves and others?
• What are the relations between freedom, responsibility, ethics, and self-fulfillment?
• Why is it important to accept our mistakes and value our abilities?
• Why is it essential to be aware of our individual talents to design our destiny?
• Why do we need to pay attention to the people who make criticisms to us? Etc.

«Freedom deals with a personal commitment to develop our abilities». «If we took the effort to realize what we really are, the strength and the capacity that we have, the wonderful traits that we have, and develop them to the fullest, then we will be happy» (Abraham Twerski).

Aquí escucharás un maravilloso discurso del Dr. Abraham Twerski sobre la autoestima como un pilar importante de la realización personal.
Realmente lo recomiendo a todo el mundo, especialmente a los adolescentes. No importa tu cultura o creencias, encontrarás en este discurso la sabiduría y la fuerza para desarrollar lo mejor de ti mismo.

Los invito a tomarse el tiempo necesario para escuchar la sabiduría universal y profunda expresada por el Dr. Abraham Twerski. Su discurso le ayudará a pensar y a buscar respuestas a preguntas como:

¿Cuáles son las diferencias entre las personas y el resto de animales?
¿Qué tiene que ver la autoestima con la espiritualidad, superar las dificultades, ayudarnos a nosotros mismos y a los demás?
¿Cuáles son las relaciones entre libertad, responsabilidad, ética y autorrealización?
¿Por qué es importante aceptar nuestros errores y valorar nuestras habilidades?
¿Por qué es fundamental estar al tanto de nuestros talentos individuales para diseñar nuestro destino?
¿Por qué debemos prestar atención a las personas que nos critican? Etc.

«La libertad trata de un compromiso personal para desarrollar nuestras capacidades». “Si nos esforzamos por darnos cuenta de lo que realmente somos, la fuerza y la capacidad que tenemos, los maravillosos rasgos que tenemos, y los desarrollamos al máximo, entonces seremos felices» (Abraham Twerski).

SILENCE AND SPIRITUALITY

 

We could say that spirituality has to do with both sides of human nature, first, with human transcendence, I mean, with becoming aware that our individual essence is raised on the reality that connects us with others, with the universe, and with God; and, secondly, spirituality also deals with the personal activity of making our individual foundations of what we consider our identity, our essence as human beings with unique personality. In both cases, silence is a necessary tool to promote our spirituality.

In my opinion, silence is an indispensable element to promote spirituality.

The present way of living hinders the use of silence in education and in our lives.  We need to learn how to promote silence in our education and in our daily life.

People are not educated to search answers to questions like:

What are the most important things in our lives? What is the meaning of my life? Why does dignity involve compassion?

To reflect the most important things we need to find isolated places and silence.

We are surrounded by noise. When we are alone, we are usually reading, listening music, using the mobile and the computer, doing and thinking things that we have to do and all this noise and activities prevent us from being still and in silence.

I believe that lack of silence is related to lack of individual personality, alienation of our exclusivity as human beings, destruction of our dignity, etc.

I think we need to reject many traditions that in the past were identified as spiritual ones; however, we need to recover silence.