The
Spiritual Journey requires dedication, commitment and effort. There will be
times when difficulties and self-doubts creep in, making the self
exploration unproductive and a drudgery. During moments like this, we could all
use a bit of encouragement. I hope you find these posts useful / helpful in one
way or another.
Light and Bliss
to you on the Journey!
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The role of
Spirituality
Fully
functioning persons have a deep sense of spirituality. They know that the world
in which they live cannot be explained or understood through human experience
alone. They know that they must make the ‘mystical leap.’ They must go beyond
themselves, beyond their limited reality. They have an inexplicable sense of
something more. They feel a greater operative intellect than their own, even if
they are at a loss to give it a name. They are aware of a great design,
incessantly operative, in which all is compatible and in which there are no
contradictions.
Life offers us few explanations. We cannot be
certain of the true meaning of life, the source of life nor Life after life.
Only we can fill the void which this incertitude creates. We can either accept
in faith or select nothingness. Both are the same. Both will involve mind
games, for neither offer definitive proofs. This does not mean that answers do
not exist.
Some of us are
unable to live without answers. The void is too totally frightening, too
devastating. So we must create answers for ourselves. Some of us choose to live
without answers. We find them unnecessary. We live out our lives without asking
questions, living into answers. Both ways require the creating of a belief
system for which there is no validation. Either choice embodies a living sense
of spirituality which arises from the affirmation of the self through personal
choice itself.
Spirituality,
faith and mystery are inherent in every aspect of life.
To be in touch
with nature, to feel deeply its moods, to experience fully its sorcery, to know
how so-called ‘inanimate’ things work, is to become caught up in the
spirituality and divinity of all things.
The spirit of
each person and thing is present even if we are too asleep to experience it,
even if we deny its existence. Spirituality involves an awareness of all there
is and an openness to what is not. It is the strength and fearlessness to allow
ourselves to transcend reality and ourselves.
Fully
functioning individuals know that it is the is magic that gives life its spice,
irradiates boredom and elevates existence beyond space and time. To be a fully
functioning person is to reach out with total trust and touch the God of all
things.
- Author unknown
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