"There is joy in all things because we see the blessings in hardship."
A friend of mine watched the video of my blog post on "The Law of Brokenness" and had a very interesting comment that I wanted to explore. The place I want to always be in life (and in my writings) is open to new ideas and changes to any idea. I do not take ownership of these thoughts, as most of them are based off of teachings elsewhere anyways. An important truth that I am realizing is the importance of being open. Our Western training teaches us that truth is absolute and either right or wrong, however truth is relative and inclusive. I like the idea of resonating. Some truths resonate with some people and not with others.
The point was that one can surrender to joy and not only when you are destitute. That is a great point and one that I will explore a bit. My intention in referring exclusively to brokenness was to identify a trend that I noticed, which seems to contradict it being a law. However, the trend is so strong that I thought it warranted being considered a law. My immediate response was renaming the law to "The Law of Surrender." Before I address that directly, I also wanted to point out that brokenness on the spiritual path needs to be approached from a higher perspective. From this perspective, there is joy in being broken. There is joy in all things because we see the blessings in hardship. This is one point that maybe should have been more fully developed.
At the time of brokenness, I doubt many are joyful, however, so I completely agree that it is important to focus more on the end result which is surrender. To say that the Power of the Universe only works through a certain class of people is limiting this Power. So, in this law of surrender, I acknowledge that the path to surrender usually involves a brokenness of some kind. However, surrender can readily occur through joy as well.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Law of Brokenness
"The Law of Brokenness is that the Power of the Universe works through the broken, through the destitute, downtrodden, and outcasts."
There are many spiritual laws that govern our universe. These laws are similar to the law of gravity in that they always are in effect. A law that has recently become very apparent to me, I will call the "Law of Brokenness." To effectively introduce this law as well as describe how and why it works, I will need to start from the beginning.
We are eternal beings in a human incarnation. This world is our playground or school to learn lessons and evolve spiritually. The greatest tool we have at our disposal is our will power. With it, we can literally choose living a life in heaven or hell right here and now. We can accept or deny God with it. This law has been designed so that it takes a force of our will to accept God, which we formally define as a Power greater than ourselves. If God came in flashing lights and physically appeared in human form to each of us, working all sorts of miracles, that lessens the faith required to believe in this power. Of course, this occurs from time to time but cannot happen for every person. If this were to occur, this, in essence, weakens our will and defeats the purpose of us having a will in the first place.
For the pundits who exclaim, "there is no God because I am calling on her to levitate this table 3 feet in the air", this will not occur because of the lessening of the will. This Power is much more subtle than that.
The Law of Brokenness is that the Power of the Universe works through the broken, through the destitute, downtrodden, and outcasts. The reason for this is that the embodiment of Love requires absolute surrender to our identification with any part of this world, call this the ego. If there is but one strand of connection to this world, we block the totality of Love from entering us. This really is an all or nothing proposition. A broken person more readily admits and knows that clinging on to Form spells ultimate disaster and is more willing to surrender the totality of themselves to this Power.
This law also calls to light that true spirituality does not necessarily lurk in a monastery, church, convent, temple, or other gathering place but in groups of people that have acknowledged their brokenness. This is also the paradox that keeps God out of the lime-light, presenting stumbling blocks for the prideful, arrogant and conceited. To find the Answer, we must do the seeking not have it pre-processed and hand-delivered to us.
The next time you feel yourself putting up a wall of arrogance, remember that Power is with the broken. Admit your brokenness to others and use it as a fuel to deepen your faith.
I posted a video version of this blog post here:
http://youtu.be/mJBPmz3qkHM
There are many spiritual laws that govern our universe. These laws are similar to the law of gravity in that they always are in effect. A law that has recently become very apparent to me, I will call the "Law of Brokenness." To effectively introduce this law as well as describe how and why it works, I will need to start from the beginning.
We are eternal beings in a human incarnation. This world is our playground or school to learn lessons and evolve spiritually. The greatest tool we have at our disposal is our will power. With it, we can literally choose living a life in heaven or hell right here and now. We can accept or deny God with it. This law has been designed so that it takes a force of our will to accept God, which we formally define as a Power greater than ourselves. If God came in flashing lights and physically appeared in human form to each of us, working all sorts of miracles, that lessens the faith required to believe in this power. Of course, this occurs from time to time but cannot happen for every person. If this were to occur, this, in essence, weakens our will and defeats the purpose of us having a will in the first place.
For the pundits who exclaim, "there is no God because I am calling on her to levitate this table 3 feet in the air", this will not occur because of the lessening of the will. This Power is much more subtle than that.
The Law of Brokenness is that the Power of the Universe works through the broken, through the destitute, downtrodden, and outcasts. The reason for this is that the embodiment of Love requires absolute surrender to our identification with any part of this world, call this the ego. If there is but one strand of connection to this world, we block the totality of Love from entering us. This really is an all or nothing proposition. A broken person more readily admits and knows that clinging on to Form spells ultimate disaster and is more willing to surrender the totality of themselves to this Power.
This law also calls to light that true spirituality does not necessarily lurk in a monastery, church, convent, temple, or other gathering place but in groups of people that have acknowledged their brokenness. This is also the paradox that keeps God out of the lime-light, presenting stumbling blocks for the prideful, arrogant and conceited. To find the Answer, we must do the seeking not have it pre-processed and hand-delivered to us.
The next time you feel yourself putting up a wall of arrogance, remember that Power is with the broken. Admit your brokenness to others and use it as a fuel to deepen your faith.
I posted a video version of this blog post here:
http://youtu.be/mJBPmz3qkHM
Friday, January 27, 2012
Divine Appointments
"There are no coincidences in life but divine appointments. They serve to strengthen my faith; they are an outward reminder that deepen and widen my inner life."
As part of a new direction for this blog, I will disclose some recent syncronicities that I have noticed in my life. At the risk of alienating my readers, I have decided to open things up to discuss mystical occurrences on a more personal level. These syncronicities are, after all, part of the fabric of my life and a valuable source of knowledge for me. One of the paradigm shifts for me that I have gone through in the last year is learning to trust my intuition as a source of knowledge. This is quite tricky as intuition and feeling can be intertwined and, often, are difficult to differentiate.
A source of knowledge in the same vein as intuition are syncronicities. These are divine appointments where something happens once or multiple times and you know that it is a message from the Universe. There are no coincidences in life but divine appointments. They serve to strengthen my faith; they are an outward reminder that deepen and widen my inner life.
The interesting thing about my belief in divine appointments is that, since I have increased my faith in them, their prevalence in my life has increased as well. The other day, I was listening to a podcast on the importance of connecting with the land. Later on that night, I was reading some articles online and ran across one where it mentioned Red-Tailed Hawks. It was not the focus of the article, so it stood out to me.
On Facebook later that day, one of my friends posted about seeing the movie "Red Hawks." Then, a few hours later, my random desktop background changer switched to a picture of a Red-Breasted Hawk! That was enough by itself but this morning I finished listening to the podcast I had started and it finished with using an example of someone that can connect to the spirit world through, you guessed it, the spirit of a hawk.
I did some reading and it appears that this spirit is reminding me to keep an aerial or God-perspective view of my situation, among tons of other things.
The other syncronistic event was I ran across the numbers 111 prominently displayed on a receipt this week. Later on, I woke up and saw the numbers on my clock. Since then, I have seen these numbers numerous times and usually when I am thinking about them. The meaning there is that things are manifesting right now and that I need to be clear about my intentions to the Universe.
But, what a wonderful thing to be open to the mind of the Universe and be able to receive knowledge in different ways!
As part of a new direction for this blog, I will disclose some recent syncronicities that I have noticed in my life. At the risk of alienating my readers, I have decided to open things up to discuss mystical occurrences on a more personal level. These syncronicities are, after all, part of the fabric of my life and a valuable source of knowledge for me. One of the paradigm shifts for me that I have gone through in the last year is learning to trust my intuition as a source of knowledge. This is quite tricky as intuition and feeling can be intertwined and, often, are difficult to differentiate.
A source of knowledge in the same vein as intuition are syncronicities. These are divine appointments where something happens once or multiple times and you know that it is a message from the Universe. There are no coincidences in life but divine appointments. They serve to strengthen my faith; they are an outward reminder that deepen and widen my inner life.
The interesting thing about my belief in divine appointments is that, since I have increased my faith in them, their prevalence in my life has increased as well. The other day, I was listening to a podcast on the importance of connecting with the land. Later on that night, I was reading some articles online and ran across one where it mentioned Red-Tailed Hawks. It was not the focus of the article, so it stood out to me.
On Facebook later that day, one of my friends posted about seeing the movie "Red Hawks." Then, a few hours later, my random desktop background changer switched to a picture of a Red-Breasted Hawk! That was enough by itself but this morning I finished listening to the podcast I had started and it finished with using an example of someone that can connect to the spirit world through, you guessed it, the spirit of a hawk.
I did some reading and it appears that this spirit is reminding me to keep an aerial or God-perspective view of my situation, among tons of other things.
The other syncronistic event was I ran across the numbers 111 prominently displayed on a receipt this week. Later on, I woke up and saw the numbers on my clock. Since then, I have seen these numbers numerous times and usually when I am thinking about them. The meaning there is that things are manifesting right now and that I need to be clear about my intentions to the Universe.
But, what a wonderful thing to be open to the mind of the Universe and be able to receive knowledge in different ways!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The Weight of the World
"The truth of the matter is that I alone do not determine my fate yet am a part of a cohesive whole, which is the interconnectedness of all people and the fabric of nature."
I have noticed that, in my daily life, my mind is constantly spinning, trying to plan for this or figure that out. In a literal sense, if I let it, my mind carries the weight of the world. This constant thinking happens on its own. If I allow it to happen, it continues. My point is that I do not have to "try" to map out my life before it happens in my mind, it is a part of past conditioning and is the background noise that clouds my life.
It really all comes down to confusion about the world in which I live. If my assumption is that my life is what I make it and that I, alone, determine my destiny, then it makes sense that I need to be using my intellect to control my life. It does imply a sense of lack of faith but more confusion. This is because I can have faith but can let the fog of confusion in this world seep into my life. The truth of the matter is that I alone do not determine my fate yet am a part of a cohesive whole, which is the interconnectedness of all people and the fabric of nature. I am not separate yet inseparably joined with others and this planet.
Another truth is that the universe is a safe, good place that is nurturing me, caring for me and providing for me. With these truths in hand, I can see that my mind working is just spinning my wheels. What freedom there is in realizing I do not need to be constantly scheming and analyzing as the Universe has this all taken care of.
I surrender to the Universe and relax my mind as it does not need to control me anymore. I have faith that things will work out as they should and my role is to accept life as it presents itself to me. I see how I fit into the grand scheme of things, follow my dreams, and rest in the comfort that I am exactly where I need to be and have everything I need right now.
I have noticed that, in my daily life, my mind is constantly spinning, trying to plan for this or figure that out. In a literal sense, if I let it, my mind carries the weight of the world. This constant thinking happens on its own. If I allow it to happen, it continues. My point is that I do not have to "try" to map out my life before it happens in my mind, it is a part of past conditioning and is the background noise that clouds my life.
It really all comes down to confusion about the world in which I live. If my assumption is that my life is what I make it and that I, alone, determine my destiny, then it makes sense that I need to be using my intellect to control my life. It does imply a sense of lack of faith but more confusion. This is because I can have faith but can let the fog of confusion in this world seep into my life. The truth of the matter is that I alone do not determine my fate yet am a part of a cohesive whole, which is the interconnectedness of all people and the fabric of nature. I am not separate yet inseparably joined with others and this planet.
Another truth is that the universe is a safe, good place that is nurturing me, caring for me and providing for me. With these truths in hand, I can see that my mind working is just spinning my wheels. What freedom there is in realizing I do not need to be constantly scheming and analyzing as the Universe has this all taken care of.
I surrender to the Universe and relax my mind as it does not need to control me anymore. I have faith that things will work out as they should and my role is to accept life as it presents itself to me. I see how I fit into the grand scheme of things, follow my dreams, and rest in the comfort that I am exactly where I need to be and have everything I need right now.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
A Higher Consciousness
"In the kingdom of God within every heart lies the perfection of Love, where such dualities do not exist."
As I progress on my spiritual path, one thing that I have been thinking about quite a bit is something that people refer to as a unitive state of consciousness. I have been introduced to a lot of new concepts and this is one that resonated with me. When I say "thinking", I mean I have come come to a place of knowing about this state and then have been attempting to integrate that into my life.
There are many different ways, I could define "unitive", so what I mean is that this is a state of consciousness where duality ceases to exist. There are different levels or planes of truth. This enables multiple viewpoints to be simultaneously valid, depending on which plane you are operating from.
Good and bad, right and wrong, and other dualities live in the domain of this world. In the kingdom of God within every heart lies the perfection of Love, where such dualities do not exist. It is my view that this Love essence is the building block for the physical reality that we see as well as the core of our being. In other words, all planes of consciousness collapse down to the God-plane, where there is only Love.
All in this world point towards living from the inner life as the primary reality. If that is your reality, you see all is perfect as it is. Even injustice is but a pointer to detach yourself from this world and live in the Spirit. In fact, even attaching to the positive aspect of duality ensures that we encounter the negative. The goal is to live without attachment. All experience in life is but an exercise in detaching from this world and living a life of Love.
The trick about unitive consciousness is we only get glimpses of it at first. This happens through meditation or any other centering activity. My goal is to try to live in a unitive state of consciousness as much as possible. The challenging aspect of this is that I must act "as if" I am always in this plane, even when I do not feel like it or am really operating from a more base level. Unitive consciousness seems to also imply something, that I will not explore here, which is uniting with others in one common Consciousness, that is the Christ Consciousness. This will be explored in future posts.
As I progress on my spiritual path, one thing that I have been thinking about quite a bit is something that people refer to as a unitive state of consciousness. I have been introduced to a lot of new concepts and this is one that resonated with me. When I say "thinking", I mean I have come come to a place of knowing about this state and then have been attempting to integrate that into my life.
There are many different ways, I could define "unitive", so what I mean is that this is a state of consciousness where duality ceases to exist. There are different levels or planes of truth. This enables multiple viewpoints to be simultaneously valid, depending on which plane you are operating from.
Good and bad, right and wrong, and other dualities live in the domain of this world. In the kingdom of God within every heart lies the perfection of Love, where such dualities do not exist. It is my view that this Love essence is the building block for the physical reality that we see as well as the core of our being. In other words, all planes of consciousness collapse down to the God-plane, where there is only Love.
All in this world point towards living from the inner life as the primary reality. If that is your reality, you see all is perfect as it is. Even injustice is but a pointer to detach yourself from this world and live in the Spirit. In fact, even attaching to the positive aspect of duality ensures that we encounter the negative. The goal is to live without attachment. All experience in life is but an exercise in detaching from this world and living a life of Love.
The trick about unitive consciousness is we only get glimpses of it at first. This happens through meditation or any other centering activity. My goal is to try to live in a unitive state of consciousness as much as possible. The challenging aspect of this is that I must act "as if" I am always in this plane, even when I do not feel like it or am really operating from a more base level. Unitive consciousness seems to also imply something, that I will not explore here, which is uniting with others in one common Consciousness, that is the Christ Consciousness. This will be explored in future posts.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Learning Discernment
"When I am in doubt whether I should wait or act, I should usually wait. Patience and tranquility are guideposts along my path that I am learning how to see."
No matter how many times I think to myself, it is much better for me to wait rather than act, I find myself acting. There is always a good excuse, of course. In fact, there is always a good spiritual excuse of why I should act. The list usually includes me not acting because of fear or that I am not acting from my Spirit. In other words, I should act because it is going against the ego.
It really does come down to discernment. I discern that such and such action is "spiritual" because it is coming from my Higher Self, and so I act. However, the reality is that my judgment is clouded, because I am not allowing enough time to pass in order for me to think clearly. When I am in doubt whether I should wait or act, I should usually wait. Patience and tranquility are guideposts along my path that I am learning how to see.
The higher truth is that it is better for me to wait. The higher the attachment I have to an object, the longer I should wait. The other realization is that attachment is to the ego like a duck is to water. I really cannot separate the two. I am realizing that attachment should be expected if I reside in the domain of my ego. It still comes down to constant ego sacrifice. Patience is indeed a quality of Spirit and expediency is not.
This is a topic for another article, but I am discovering that intention matters little if an action is taken that has high attachment. In other words, intending to not be attached to an action is trumped by the reality that an action is attached. Here is an example. If my stomach is filled with food and I do not intend my next bite to be attached to food, my actions show that I am attached to food. I am already full, so why am I eating food?
Here, the higher truth is to be grounded in reality and to analyze the results of an action before taking it. I need to discern if action itself broadcasts attachment to anything. If it does, then there may be a better course of action.
This is not to say that there is a wrong or right action but to act consciously, weighing the action against the intention. Accept the action and it's consequences immediately, receive any nourishment through learning any lessons and allow future actions to be informed by this newfound knowledge.
No matter how many times I think to myself, it is much better for me to wait rather than act, I find myself acting. There is always a good excuse, of course. In fact, there is always a good spiritual excuse of why I should act. The list usually includes me not acting because of fear or that I am not acting from my Spirit. In other words, I should act because it is going against the ego.
It really does come down to discernment. I discern that such and such action is "spiritual" because it is coming from my Higher Self, and so I act. However, the reality is that my judgment is clouded, because I am not allowing enough time to pass in order for me to think clearly. When I am in doubt whether I should wait or act, I should usually wait. Patience and tranquility are guideposts along my path that I am learning how to see.
The higher truth is that it is better for me to wait. The higher the attachment I have to an object, the longer I should wait. The other realization is that attachment is to the ego like a duck is to water. I really cannot separate the two. I am realizing that attachment should be expected if I reside in the domain of my ego. It still comes down to constant ego sacrifice. Patience is indeed a quality of Spirit and expediency is not.
This is a topic for another article, but I am discovering that intention matters little if an action is taken that has high attachment. In other words, intending to not be attached to an action is trumped by the reality that an action is attached. Here is an example. If my stomach is filled with food and I do not intend my next bite to be attached to food, my actions show that I am attached to food. I am already full, so why am I eating food?
Here, the higher truth is to be grounded in reality and to analyze the results of an action before taking it. I need to discern if action itself broadcasts attachment to anything. If it does, then there may be a better course of action.
This is not to say that there is a wrong or right action but to act consciously, weighing the action against the intention. Accept the action and it's consequences immediately, receive any nourishment through learning any lessons and allow future actions to be informed by this newfound knowledge.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
One Truth
There is but one truth in life. That we are all one. There is one reality, one consciousness and one breath that gives us all life. This force and power is the power of Love.
Many times I want to make spirituality complex and add theories and explanations of why such and such happens. It really all comes down to one basic truth that I often lose sight of. That is the truth that Love is all there is.
All of the world is made out of this Love-essence. It is like we are fashioned out of clay and then spend our lives questioning "Does clay exist?" There is but one truth in life. That we are all one. There is one reality, one consciousness and one breath that gives us all life. This force and power is the power of Love.
In addition to all being made out of the same building block, we also participate in a shared reality. That is the reality that binds us all together. And we have one consciousness yet think we are separate. The same breath that gives me life, gives you life as well.
My ego thinks that if I admit I am but a wave on a vast sea of consciousness, that my ego will die. The reality is that my ego will die after my physical incarnation anyways. The bigger reality is that I am not my ego. What I am is much bigger than my ego but a spirit, part of the Great Spirit. This is why all religions speak of sacrifice; it is ego sacrifice that they always are referring to. If I sacrifice my ego now, that is association with my physical incarnation, I have nothing to lose.
The beauty of living a life according to my spiritual nature is that true happiness emerges. I am living my life by that one power, the power of Love. I embody that power and allow it to work through me. What enfolds are dreams greater than what I could have imagined with my ego-mind, as love manifests itself in my life in a concrete way.
Many times I want to make spirituality complex and add theories and explanations of why such and such happens. It really all comes down to one basic truth that I often lose sight of. That is the truth that Love is all there is.
All of the world is made out of this Love-essence. It is like we are fashioned out of clay and then spend our lives questioning "Does clay exist?" There is but one truth in life. That we are all one. There is one reality, one consciousness and one breath that gives us all life. This force and power is the power of Love.
In addition to all being made out of the same building block, we also participate in a shared reality. That is the reality that binds us all together. And we have one consciousness yet think we are separate. The same breath that gives me life, gives you life as well.
My ego thinks that if I admit I am but a wave on a vast sea of consciousness, that my ego will die. The reality is that my ego will die after my physical incarnation anyways. The bigger reality is that I am not my ego. What I am is much bigger than my ego but a spirit, part of the Great Spirit. This is why all religions speak of sacrifice; it is ego sacrifice that they always are referring to. If I sacrifice my ego now, that is association with my physical incarnation, I have nothing to lose.
The beauty of living a life according to my spiritual nature is that true happiness emerges. I am living my life by that one power, the power of Love. I embody that power and allow it to work through me. What enfolds are dreams greater than what I could have imagined with my ego-mind, as love manifests itself in my life in a concrete way.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The Miracle of Religion
"The miracle of religion is how the voice of the One can still come through vessels that constantly mix in ego and personality into the transmission."
Religions are systems that have been applied to spirituality. Usually, a teacher comes along that is in direct contact with God or merges with Divinity. Such teachers rarely write down their own teachings as they are just so content with life. In that space, they are just content with the state of being. Later on, people come along and interpret, recollect and paraphrase the lives of these prophets. They create elaborate systems that were never the intent of the original teacher. These systems are primarily intellectual in nature. They are a way for the mind to relate to the teachings and then how to make that make sense in the light of contemporary thought and culture.
From there, generations of followers of these religions create different flavors of it; they break off from the original religious branch and create their own. Some religions may be combined with others to create hybrid religions. In the end, it is all the same. Religion is an intellectual system of thought that systematizes a vast body of knowledge that came about as a result of an enlightened teacher.
Some of us mistake religion as God. We misinterpret the enlightened teacher and think that our religion is the only way to God. We think that if we focus on the words of our religious writings, that that is the voice of God. We do not allow God to talk to us in any other way than the channels which our religion approves. In this way, religions can be idols that take us away from God.
A religion may be useful for the vast majority of us to bring us to the One force in this world, the First Cause at it were. Religions make things very palatable for our minds. They predigest the concepts of God and spirituality for us. A system has been created that we just have to follow to achieve union with God, or whatever the goal the religion espouses. Religion is like spirituality with training wheels. After some of us learn to ride the bike of spirituality, we are then ready to get rid of the training wheels.
We see that the world is our religion. Life is our spiritual practice. At that point, we look up and see that the world is full of religions, just like ours, that are also paths to the Divine. Ours was but one path. We may leave the religious path and enter a wider spiritual path.
At some point, we may choose to re-visit our religion of origin and are amazed at what we see with our new spiritual eyes. The miracle of religion is how the voice of the One can still come through vessels that constantly mix in ego and personality into the transmission. How is it that we were able to see past the stumbling blocks of ego and narrow viewpoints that flavored our religious writings and teachings?
That is the true miracle. That we could see through to the truth about our Beloved, despite all of the additives that were put into the mixture. This is testimony to the Light that is inside each of us, that we can learn to discern true teachings by the light of this flame. In a way, the light of God is able to illuminate the truth of God; light attracts light. May we forever appreciate that the Supreme cut through the entanglements of dogma to show us her true nature and guides us on our spiritual path.
Religions are systems that have been applied to spirituality. Usually, a teacher comes along that is in direct contact with God or merges with Divinity. Such teachers rarely write down their own teachings as they are just so content with life. In that space, they are just content with the state of being. Later on, people come along and interpret, recollect and paraphrase the lives of these prophets. They create elaborate systems that were never the intent of the original teacher. These systems are primarily intellectual in nature. They are a way for the mind to relate to the teachings and then how to make that make sense in the light of contemporary thought and culture.
From there, generations of followers of these religions create different flavors of it; they break off from the original religious branch and create their own. Some religions may be combined with others to create hybrid religions. In the end, it is all the same. Religion is an intellectual system of thought that systematizes a vast body of knowledge that came about as a result of an enlightened teacher.
Some of us mistake religion as God. We misinterpret the enlightened teacher and think that our religion is the only way to God. We think that if we focus on the words of our religious writings, that that is the voice of God. We do not allow God to talk to us in any other way than the channels which our religion approves. In this way, religions can be idols that take us away from God.
A religion may be useful for the vast majority of us to bring us to the One force in this world, the First Cause at it were. Religions make things very palatable for our minds. They predigest the concepts of God and spirituality for us. A system has been created that we just have to follow to achieve union with God, or whatever the goal the religion espouses. Religion is like spirituality with training wheels. After some of us learn to ride the bike of spirituality, we are then ready to get rid of the training wheels.
We see that the world is our religion. Life is our spiritual practice. At that point, we look up and see that the world is full of religions, just like ours, that are also paths to the Divine. Ours was but one path. We may leave the religious path and enter a wider spiritual path.
At some point, we may choose to re-visit our religion of origin and are amazed at what we see with our new spiritual eyes. The miracle of religion is how the voice of the One can still come through vessels that constantly mix in ego and personality into the transmission. How is it that we were able to see past the stumbling blocks of ego and narrow viewpoints that flavored our religious writings and teachings?
That is the true miracle. That we could see through to the truth about our Beloved, despite all of the additives that were put into the mixture. This is testimony to the Light that is inside each of us, that we can learn to discern true teachings by the light of this flame. In a way, the light of God is able to illuminate the truth of God; light attracts light. May we forever appreciate that the Supreme cut through the entanglements of dogma to show us her true nature and guides us on our spiritual path.
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