Wednesday, January 31, 2018

A Conversation with GOD every Step of the Way

Take risks in life.
If you win, you can lead!
If you loose, you can guide.
(Swami Vivekananda)

Do you remember the scene in Star Wars when young Luke Skywalker was asked to fend off the simulated laser beams blind-folded? That’s what intuition is all about. It takes practice to get to that stage of mastery. It takes connectedness to the FORCE beyond the self, and it certainly takes a lot of guts standing up to the voice inside screaming that we are only fooling ourselves following our divine guidance.  Yet, there is good news in all that confusion—we cannot make a mistake! Having this divine connection here and now is all we ever can ever aspire, and having missed a step along the Way is a perfect learning opportunity not to repeat it next time.



 SPIRIT or self—love or fear? These are the choices that always present themselves. The spiritual master makes these choices instinctively, while facing the occasional Soul-searching situation once in a blue moon. SPIRIT can always tell us what is of GOD in this world, but we are sometimes fooled by our nature just like everyone else is. Our Soul still signs up for a life lesson from time to time, that’s what earth school is all about. We are at school for a reason; if we already knew why to be here in the first place? Being ‘right’ all the time is overrated, it would only make us arrogant and that’s certainly not the Way.  The 'mistake' we just made might be the very insight that brings the next spiritual break-through. The spiritually kosher decision might be 'wrong' here and now as our Soul still needs us to understand what our brother’s struggles are all about. There is sometimes no telling what is spiritually 'wrong' and what is 'right' as we face life’s confusing choices. Still, we might as well charge ahead boldly. Our Soul advances every step of the Way.

Every situation, every object, every interaction, every word, every feeling and memory  is a symbol of sorts. Do we experience the world of SPIRIT here and now, or is our limited self still telling good-sounding stories. Sometimes we see the self-manufactured world, and sometimes we see the world of SPIRIT. Either way, our Soul will advance.


The World of the Symbol

SPIRIT

Soul                symbol

self


Our Soul matures by making the next choice with SPIRIT,  or with self. SPIRIT educates our Soul by using the symbol of life’s confusing maya and patiently explains to us why our life experience is exactly what our Soul needs. Take risks in life. Lead when you are connected with the Way, and guide others should you have missed a step. Just be yourself, SPIRIT carries you Home on the fastest route possible.

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