It seems to me that there are many unhappy people on this site. Many who worry, often needlessly. Worry causes stress, and stress is very harmful to the spirit. Lots of people do not really know what stress is! One has to remember that we are animals, no different from other animals, especially primates. And we are "programmed" with basic instincts, one of which is to produce adrenalin during a threat. Adrenalin is enormously powerful! It gives us the power for "Fight or flight"; to stand and face the threat, or to run away from it. But there lies the problem. In a modern society we often feel threatened, and we can neither stand and fight, nor run away! And so the adrenalin doesn't "drain" properly; it stays in the blood; and that is "stress".
It can be beaten! Be cheerful. Try not to worry. As Max Erman said,"Strive to be happy."
You don't give enough information. Do you mean "pauper", as having no income?
And where you live matters; a very good income in one country may be actual poverty in another. So, if you are asking for help with money, I am afraid you are looking in the wrong place. Look at the rules for this site.
although i understand what you are saying, i am not quite agreeing with the term animal, since we are rather energy beings than any common animal. But with that said, part of some people's damaged psyche or even spirit is also due to sometimes their own practices.People think being "dark" is deviant and being an individual when in fact you can be an individual and still not do things that are risky and get yourself caught in negative energy
Indigo does make a valid point. Nevertheless, there are only three types of "Matter"; animal,vegetable, and mineral. As we are neither vegetable or mineral, we are animal.We may have higher intelligence than other animals (although I have some doubts about that!), though we don't really know, do we? Are we more intelligent than insects? Bees, ants? We have an advantage not given to many other animals; we not only have the power of speech (others have that) but we have more advanced memory.That means we can write down what we have learnt, and memorise it, as also can the reader. Other animals do not have this advantage. But they do seem to manage very well,do they not?
I agree with you bryson. It is foolish to ignore our animal state. In its base form, consciousness is a product of the brain, ie chemicals and matter, and our 'spirituality' is born from what we do with that. Thankyou for post.