May 30, 2008

Does this sound like you? Part III

Watch for more announcments about our new membership website Sexy Spiritual Relationships - Lauching early in July 2008

Does this sound like you? Part III

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”
Our Inward Journey by Karen Ravn, Hallmark 1979

Life is good, but however good that is (even really, really, really good), you still know inside “This can’t be all there is. There has to be more.” Not more fame and fortune. Not more money, sex and power. Not more success, accomplishment, recognition and status. As wonderful as these things are they can’t fill that need you feel gnawing away at you from a place deep inside yourself. The longing you feel is a spiritual hunger.

You know you have a mind and that you think, but you are not your thoughts, not your mind. You have a body. Pleasure and sex are good, but you are not your body. You feel love, but you are not your feelings. You have a personality, but you are not your personality. You are not your beliefs, assumptions, perception, feelings or thoughts. You are not the roles you play in life: man, woman, child, adult, son, daughter, father, mother, husband, wife, citizen, teacher, guru, boss, employee, leader, follower, artist, super star, famous person, powerful person, powerless person, poor person, rich person, beautiful person, popular person, outcast, sick, healthy, smart, ignorant, educated, uneducated, etc.

None of these things can account for your true self; none of these things can contain your true self. Your essence is not limited to any or even to all of this. If all of these things are taken away, and they will be taken away—nothing in this world lasts and no one gets out of life alive; if all of that vanishes, what is left of you? You ask yourself: “Where am I in all of this?”

This is a pivotal point in your life. Once you open this door, there is no turning back. You are now asking the big questions, the fundamental questions:

Who am I?

What is ego?

What is the soul?

Why am I here?

What is my purpose in life?

Why do I do anything?

What ultimately matters to me?

How can I make a true and lasting contribution to the world?

What does it mean to follow my bliss?

Where did I come from?

Where do I return?

What is death?

What comes after death?

What is peace of mind that passeth all understanding?

Is happiness possible?

What is good?

What is love?

What is holy?

What is real?

What is evil?

Is there a solution to fear, pain and suffering in the world?

Is there greatness in me?

What is destiny?

What is fate?

What is karma?

What is character? Am I a person of character?

What are good and bad decisions and choices?

How can I be all that I was meant to be?

What are my rights and responsibilities and freedoms in this body, in this world, in this lifetime?

How do I reclaim my freedom?

What is surrender—surrender to what, surrender to whom?

Is anything absolute?

What is God?

What is illumination, liberation, realization, awakening, nirvana, Samadhi, moksha, enlightenment?

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Author unknown

You are not alone. Open the door. Enter. Others are waiting patiently to lend a helping hand. Jump into the abyss. Join with us in our new membership site Sexy Spiritual Relationships, and begin or continue your spiritual quest.

Come to the edge.

We might fall.

Come to the edge.

It’s too high!

COME TO THE EDGE!

And they came,

and he pushed,

and they flew.

(Christopher Logue – English Poet 1926-)[i]

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