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It Isn't What You Thought
I can tell you a little of my spiritual endeavors to encourage you and give you hope, but if you do not do what I have done in order to experience such things then you will not ‘get what I got’ – they way I got it. Inspiration though beautiful words is not action. Knowledge without acts is useless. Consciously recognizing someone else’s spiritual triumphs and the wonderful truths they champion has only limited value as it does squat to actually transmit any ownership of those truths to us.
The truths experienced by others belongs to them alone. Though we may thirst for truth, when try to suck them into our selves through intellectual osmosis – the spirit remains unsatisfied. The soul is remains parched and the spirit still ails - deprived from whatever serenity we had imagined we might surreptitiously pilfer out of the anecdotal experiences of others. The soothing fix to whatever plagues us, never comes because we have not earned the blessing of walking in the “Sunlight of the Spirit “always feeling just out of our reach as we enviously watch from the shadows. We become more and more selfish as we try even harder to “get ours”. We are trapped in a futile struggle to feel spiritual as we remain prey to our continuing failure to meet with daily stress as we try to shed ownership of our many problems. These bedevilments never seem to go away and it is our resenting even this that lock us into a seemingly never-ending cycle of depression, anxiety, discontentment - spurring wider and wider searches for new fixes.
Struggling to glean un-earned experiences we see others having hinders us from ever experiencing them ourselves because after having failed to assimilate them into our own being, the struggle and ensuing frustration only adds to the already solid block of growing resentments. As the irritants mount the setback only worsens and we move further and further away from whatever spiritual growth we had presumed we might enjoy through our searching and our ambitious ‘studies’. Here the truth taunts us and relief from our pains, fears anxieties – through any real and practical application of spiritual principles remains just out of reach. What cruelty this is.
Danny S - RLRA
Real Live Recovered Alcoholic
http://recoveredalcoholic.blogspot.com
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