We Crazy Spiritual Seekers....
"We crazy spiritual seekers...spending our lives trying to awaken,
instead of resting in the awakening that is already here now and
always." ~Kathleen McCarthy
What great words of wisdom. "...awakening that is already here now and always." Sometimes it seems we work so hard and seek so earnestly to discover what is the "truth", when in actuality, we have already discovered it and are living in it at this very moment. We are already awakened. So is everyone else.
Think of it this way: maybe we are all on the same path, but the path is circular or curved, and more horizontal than vertical. Each one of us is at a different point on that very same path, from the evangelical Christian, to the new ager, to the Buddhist, to the Wiccan. None of us "more" enlightened than the other, but simply at a different point in a never-ending process. A never-ending awakening, a never-ending re-birth. Wow, when you think of it that way........
Unless one denies any spiritual presence or great power whatsoever, we really are all doing the same thing. Seeking the "truth". Seeking the Source from which we came and trying to understand our purpose here. Trying to remember all that which we have forgotten. According to the Kabbalah, that goal is called "perceiving the Creator". How do we get closer to God? How do we "feel" God in our hearts and our minds? How can we share some of our Creator's consciousness?? Is that consciousness our ultimate home we shall return to someday?
According to the Bible, we aren't supposed to try to perceive our Creator at all, but simply to worship and pray. Is this enough? Certainly it is good to give ourselves over to God. To trust in God. To be all that God intended us to be.
What did our parents teach us? How much of what our parents taught us is caught up in our own spirituality? How much of it comes from our own hearts? How much of it depends on a holy book? How can we possibly say who is right and who is wrong?
Too many questions to answer in just one lifetime, I think. :-D
instead of resting in the awakening that is already here now and
always." ~Kathleen McCarthy
What great words of wisdom. "...awakening that is already here now and always." Sometimes it seems we work so hard and seek so earnestly to discover what is the "truth", when in actuality, we have already discovered it and are living in it at this very moment. We are already awakened. So is everyone else.
Think of it this way: maybe we are all on the same path, but the path is circular or curved, and more horizontal than vertical. Each one of us is at a different point on that very same path, from the evangelical Christian, to the new ager, to the Buddhist, to the Wiccan. None of us "more" enlightened than the other, but simply at a different point in a never-ending process. A never-ending awakening, a never-ending re-birth. Wow, when you think of it that way........
Unless one denies any spiritual presence or great power whatsoever, we really are all doing the same thing. Seeking the "truth". Seeking the Source from which we came and trying to understand our purpose here. Trying to remember all that which we have forgotten. According to the Kabbalah, that goal is called "perceiving the Creator". How do we get closer to God? How do we "feel" God in our hearts and our minds? How can we share some of our Creator's consciousness?? Is that consciousness our ultimate home we shall return to someday?
According to the Bible, we aren't supposed to try to perceive our Creator at all, but simply to worship and pray. Is this enough? Certainly it is good to give ourselves over to God. To trust in God. To be all that God intended us to be.
What did our parents teach us? How much of what our parents taught us is caught up in our own spirituality? How much of it comes from our own hearts? How much of it depends on a holy book? How can we possibly say who is right and who is wrong?
Too many questions to answer in just one lifetime, I think. :-D
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