When David the 15-year old shepherd boy, came down from the hills to face Goliath on the battlefield he was alive with a living Truth. His God was “The Living God”. You see spirituality evolves from an idea, into a very definite experience, and spiritual practice is all about relationship. Relationship requires feeling; that is the juice. The more sublime the feeling the more beauty in the relationship.
The more beauty in your relationship with your inner lover the more you become the embodiment of the living Truth and the more able you are to defeat your own personal Goliath. This meeting with the monster within is not an option; it is a pre-requisite for the evolution of your consciousness.
As sure as infancy follows birth and adolescence follows childhood, so too will you go through certain rites of passage that cannot be avoided. They can however be delayed, but your appointment with the destiny of your soul can never be put off forever. There is a great clarion call sounding out across the hills and valleys of life, it is a call to action and if you are reading this it is calling to you.
What that call is communicating is that you have a choice. It is the choice to evolve through suffering or through joy. Only you can make that choice and the choice begins anew in every moment of your life.
A great maturation process is underway in the world, and as we become more spiritually and psychologically awake we actually embody different qualities of being. This is an undeniable consequence of spiritual growth, the definite, incontestable demonstration of higher states of being expressed in the material world.
One of the biggest secrets that so many of us are beginning to grasp is that the whole game is going on inside of us. Of course there is the appearance of the world around us and because of the appearance we dance, but in order to master that world around us or at least affect it in a conscious and constructive away, we need to master the world within.
This inner journey is an adventure. It is an adventure in self-discovery of such critical import that it has been alluded to by every indigenous culture that has ever walked upon the face of the earth. It is represented in stories and mythos throughout all time and is now boldly glorified in our own culture — blazing like the universal sun rising from the ocean of imagination.
The journey within is the heroes’ journey and in more modern parlance, the super heroes’ journey. Why? Because it takes a super heroic effort of will, focus, courage, determination, discipline, consistency, patience, forgiveness and love to navigate successfully the inner realms.
Beauty is our compass, tenderness our way.
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