Disney’s soul breaks you free from the spell of hustle culture
When Jesus said “In my father’s house there are many mansions”, he wasn’t referring to real estate. Yet I wouldn’t be surprised to hear financial gurus or a greedy pastor put that spin on it. While this site doesn’t advocate consuming excessive entertainment. If you are, it should be spiritually educational. Presenting Disney’s Soul, breaking you free from the spell of hustle culture.
Social media isn’t just popular for voicing political opinions. As people advocate for justice, others are amitious to create multpile streams of income. Unlivable wages, terrible micromanging, and recent stock drops have people running to capitalize on their inner desires.
“Hustle Hard” is the new book by rap and tv mogul 50 cent. 50 released also released a diamond selling album titled “Get rich or die trying”. The popularity of financial gurus is infectious to us all. It has replaced the money cloth pastor of late-night programming from several decades ago. But who is to blame?
In the land of “opportunity”, why wouldn’t you take advantage to earn more money? At the same time, the devil does offer Jesus all the riches and the buddha sells his reaches. It’s very rare but great wealthy men have turned down or sold riches. Who wants to live in poverty though and it’s extremely difficult to remain content when the temptation to have more is always available. But is more really available if it’s only temporary?
In fact, we’re taught to believe that money is more real than the human soul. Were taught to have a deeper relationship with money than our inner selves. We take pictures with our money while laying in the bed.
Because learning how to make more money was more important than learning how to develop a relationship with our soul. To a degree the majority of us are like this and so was Joe Gardner played by Jamie Foxx in Disney’s soul.
Joe wasn’t a financial guru but was a regular citizen with aspirations like most of us. Joe wanted to make it big as a pianist. Unfortunately, the drive and focus that money gurus use to inspire us drove Joe right to his unexpected death. During his CGI crossroads, joe wasn’t ready to die, he had just got his big break he waited his entire life for. And this is a problem we all have.
We revolve our lives around several moments, hoping that making them a reality will make us happy. Or dig our own graves of misery and unhappiness. When these things don’t happen we become upset with life and others, especially those closes to us. But what if that happiness was always accessible regardless of our success?.
Through great storytelling, joe learns that all along he really had what he wanted and was taking the very things in front of him for granted. Even simple life pleasures. The blowing of the wind or a slice of cheese pizza. It seems that when overly stimulated our ambition for success and fame has an insatiable hunger. Like a hungry ghost as the Buddhist put it..
With so many distractions available and the unprecedented autonomy to earn, Disney’s soul is perfect timing. It teaches us the most fulfilling things are often free and always available. Does your soul really care if you’re famous? If it did we’d be more depressed and anxious than we already are as a society.
Self-harm isn’t just swallowing pills or cutting ourselves. It’s in the neglect of our inner selves on a daily basis and one day we find out we’re clueless and have no idea who we are.. Here’s how you’ve been putting your soul in quarantine your entire life.
In conclusion, don’t confuse popularity with what’s good for your soul. We should be grateful that our spirits are immaterial and can’t be used for ads or likes. By the way, are you neglecting what’s in front of you for your grand ambitions? The miracle of investing in your spirituality is that it doesn’t cost money. The cheapest stock is you and isn’t for sale.
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