{"id":6727,"date":"2026-10-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letmyspiritgo.org\/what-did-i-come-to-give-the-world\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T09:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T09:50:44","slug":"what-did-i-come-to-give-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letmyspiritgo.org\/en\/what-did-i-come-to-give-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"What Have I Come to Give to the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the perspective of spiritual consciousness, a birthday, as it has been celebrated for ages in all cultures, is a most peculiar day\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because it is a day when the ego is given permission to reveal what it wishes would happen every single day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to be the center of attention;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to feel special;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to wear a crown of flowers on its head;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to receive compliments, gifts, and applause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short: to receive, receive, and receive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ego cannot admit that this is what it truly wants every single day of the year \u2014 to draw power from others for itself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so, it must play the part of a kind and loving person, wearing a mask meant to conceal its true desire \u2014 for approval, recognition, and control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the truth is that <strong>the ego can love no one, because it is focused solely on itself!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet on a birthday, one clue remains that reveals how the ego operates in everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The candle-blowing ritual, during which a wish is made, yet in secret! (Yes\u2026 the ego always operates in secrecy. It is truly the <a href=\"https:\/\/letmyspiritgo.org\/en\/ego-disguised-as-generosity\/\">\u201cshadow government\u201d of our inner world<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast, people with spiritual consciousness celebrate their earthly birthday focusing on a completely different question. <strong>Instead of asking \u201cWhat have I come to receive and take?\u201d the focus becomes: \u201cWhat have I come to give to the world?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Hebrew, the word for celebration (\u201cchag\u201d) also carries the meaning of \u201ccircling upward,\u201d and therefore every celebration, not only a birthday, is meant to be a time of spiritual ascent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spirit, once freed from the binding pressure of the ego, naturally rises upward \u2014 like a helium balloon that quickly rises into the air the moment one lets it go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in this upward swing, the spirit experiences the supreme joy embodied in the commandment: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/letmyspiritgo.org\/en\/true-love\/\">\u201cYou shall love the Lord your God<\/a> with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might\u201d \u2014 calling us to place God first in our lives, as the only source of power!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, a spirit such as this will also know how to truly love, because it will never see another person as a source of energy to draw from \u2014 just as a vampire seeks to drain the power from anyone who allows it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so, naturally, such a spirit will also be able to truly fulfill the commandment: \u201cAnd you shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the perspective of spiritual consciousness, a birthday, as it has been celebrated for ages in all cultures, is a most peculiar day\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purpose-of-life","category-spirit-vs-ego"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Did I Come to Give the World? 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