The spiritual journey requires an absolute commitment to honesty. It requires that you strive to be as honest with yourself as you possibly can be, and to see yourself and your circumstances as clearly as you possibly can see. Which is easier than it sounds, and it doesn't really sound so easy to begin with.
Because the thing about our own experience is that we see it first, and sometimes only, through the lens of our own understanding. But that doesn't mean that we're seeing it in its entirety, and even very well. How do you know you're not seeing things clearly? When you suffer and struggle with the same thing over and over and over, beset again and again with the same feelings and frustration. That's how you know.
It doesn't mean something is wrong with you. It means you're missing a piece of insight or understanding or information, and the thing that's missing may be missing because seeing it, acknowledging it, accepting it, might be more painful than the suffering you're already in the middle of.
We are simultaneously resilient and fragile, and the wounds we suffer can fester deep below the surface for a long time, causing pain and weakness. But there is a cost to living with pain, to struggling, even if we don't know that's what's happening. Like an undiagnosed illness, the impact is felt even if the cause isn't understood.
Being honest with yourself about whatever is there - the symptoms, the underlying cause, the suffering - is not just about being honest. It's about becoming free. Because the spiritual journey is, more than anything, about harnessing your energy - spiritual, emotional, mental, physical - all of it, and using it to become the person you were born to be. And wherever that energy is stuck or perverted or thwarted is where pain and shame and sorrow thrive.
Use honesty not as a weapon, but an instrument of healing. Because if you've embarked on the spiritual journey, if you've undertaken this adventure, you already know you want to cultivate your potential, you want something more, for yourself, for the planet, for humanity...
Let yourself see. Really see. All of what's inside of you and how it has shaped you and what you have to let go of to keep moving forward. And even if it's the hardest thing you've ever done, which it very well might be, it's the key to the next step on the journey. The honesty - no matter how hard - lights the way on what might otherwise be a dark path.
Because the thing about our own experience is that we see it first, and sometimes only, through the lens of our own understanding. But that doesn't mean that we're seeing it in its entirety, and even very well. How do you know you're not seeing things clearly? When you suffer and struggle with the same thing over and over and over, beset again and again with the same feelings and frustration. That's how you know.
It doesn't mean something is wrong with you. It means you're missing a piece of insight or understanding or information, and the thing that's missing may be missing because seeing it, acknowledging it, accepting it, might be more painful than the suffering you're already in the middle of.
We are simultaneously resilient and fragile, and the wounds we suffer can fester deep below the surface for a long time, causing pain and weakness. But there is a cost to living with pain, to struggling, even if we don't know that's what's happening. Like an undiagnosed illness, the impact is felt even if the cause isn't understood.
Being honest with yourself about whatever is there - the symptoms, the underlying cause, the suffering - is not just about being honest. It's about becoming free. Because the spiritual journey is, more than anything, about harnessing your energy - spiritual, emotional, mental, physical - all of it, and using it to become the person you were born to be. And wherever that energy is stuck or perverted or thwarted is where pain and shame and sorrow thrive.Use honesty not as a weapon, but an instrument of healing. Because if you've embarked on the spiritual journey, if you've undertaken this adventure, you already know you want to cultivate your potential, you want something more, for yourself, for the planet, for humanity...
Let yourself see. Really see. All of what's inside of you and how it has shaped you and what you have to let go of to keep moving forward. And even if it's the hardest thing you've ever done, which it very well might be, it's the key to the next step on the journey. The honesty - no matter how hard - lights the way on what might otherwise be a dark path.
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