Last winter a big tree fell into our pool. Naturally, the clean-up process has been slow. The water is still murky, so I throw in chemicals, and almost miraculously, after a day you can look to the bottom again and use the opportunity to clean the dirt on the floor. Alas, after a day of cleaning the water is murky again and the clean-up process has to start once again.
Isn’t our inner journey just like this? We have these days when the heart talks, the mind is still, and we feel energies running through us that normally elude us. Alas, this connectedness to what lies beyond the interferences of ‘me, myself and I’ is as elusive as the cleansiness of my pool these days. What to do about it? Does inner work bring in the light?
Inner work—being mindful of thoughts, feelings, sensations, motivations and aversions, and the interplay of the inner world with the outer—is a necessary condition for having this vision, but it is not sufficient. There is more. The state of Grace that is beyond our reach. Still, let’s enjoy the beauty of spiritual living on the sunny days and let’s stay mindful otherwise.
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