Many of you will know how quite I have been... this explains it all and wow am I finding my family now... When this spiritual way of life begins to change our nature and we find ourselves being cut off from society, we do not always realize that we are going through a transitional period and that once this transition has been made and we are completely isolated from our former associates, we will be led into the companionship of those of our own spiritual household. But as long as we are still tabernacling with the world, we are not going to meet those of our own household. It is only when we have “died” to the world that suddenly out of this whole universe one person crosses our path whom we recognize as a kindred soul, and then another and another. If our lives are cluttered up with the social activities in which our friends and relatives have involved us, however, we are not free to enjoy the companionship of the one, two, or more who eventually cross our path, nor are we free to make the journeys that are sometimes necessary to be in their company because we may not always find that one, two, or three in our own community. It is true that we may we may see these companions only once in a year or once in three years, but that will not make any difference because this is a spiritual companionship that takes no thought of time or space, and even if there were yeas in which we were physically apart from those of our spiritual household, upon the next meeting we would be wholly at one. The student who is at the stage of witnessing his friends and relatives drop away, and for that matter the whole world, sometimes becomes fearful and lonesome and begins clutching at something or someone, and very often he is clutching at the wrong thing or the wrong person. And why? Because he cannot take aloneness, and if he cannot endure aloneness, he cannot enter into this life. As spiritual truth begins to reveal itself in a person, a silence descends upon him, an inability to speak and to be a part of the world’s gabble, gabble, gabble, and this of course makes everyone feel that he is odd. Even those who are starting on the Path cannot quite understand that desire to be still, that total inability to say anything and yet to impart and even to receive, and so this, too, which is another form of that inability to endure aloneness and quietness, breaks up many a student’s progress on the way. Many do not realize that the “my own” which “shall come to me,” referred to by John Burroughs, is contingent upon an attained state of consciousness which is absolute stillness and peace. When that is attained, all a person has to do is to be a beholder and watch the whole world come to him. Most persons go through life frustrated because their own does not come to them: their own companion does not come, their own opportunity for service, their own opportunity for showing forth God’s grace. They do not realize that “my own” will not come to a human being. It will not come except by being still and knowing that “I” is God, and then letting the awareness that the “I” of our being is Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience perform Its work. A Parenthesis in Eternity
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:37:50 +0000