RECOGNIZING YOUR SPIRITUAL DNA
In EXPERIENCING OUR SPIRITUAL DNA, we began to address the recognition issues of our spiritual REALITY in terms of experiences we are continually having but not recognizing. This dilemma is one we face in ongoing scenarios of failing to recognize who we REALLY are, illustrating our “forgetfulness”. Recognition is directly tied to spiritual “sight”, which therefore assists us in our “remembering”.
One cannot beat this dead horse enough. The degrees of our spiritual blindness are significant. World history is our best evidence.
As you look around you, you see the continual pursuit of LOVE. Now, how the world defines LOVE, and what LOVE actually is, are worlds apart. LOVE in the world comes equipped with multiple entanglements, including projections, expectations, exclusivity, calls for sacrifice--conditions. The LOVE of GOD is without conditions of any kind--unconditional.
The mere pursuit, even if misdirected or misinterpreted, is evidence that LOVE represents something so fundamental in our spiritual makeup that we are miserable without it, either consciously or unconsciously. We would not even pursue it if it was not a part of our makeup.
Witness the countless ways in which we attempt to bring JOY to ourselves. The forms this takes is not the issue, but the drive to do so. JOY is part of who we are and the reason we pursue it with sometimes reckless abandon.
Aside from the technological and sociological downsides of smartphones and the internet, it is important to notice the drive to feel connected. The sense of isolation is so antithetical to our makeup that we will go to many extremes to escape from it, and often to great extreme. The feeling of ONENESS and inclusion is that which drives us--our remembrance of HOME.
Notice the obsession to look and feel beautiful, no matter what form that may take. There is something deep within us that knows it is beautiful and is trying to display it as confirmation. Those who may appear to be self-denigrating and uncaring about this are only manifesting the unprocessed guilt that they still carry within them. Their guilt is not REAL, merely their identification with it.
All around, there are continual displays of the manifestation of our spiritual REALITY. We need only begin to notice them without, in order to start to recognize them within.
In EXPERIENCING OUR SPIRITUAL DNA, we began to address the recognition issues of our spiritual REALITY in terms of experiences we are continually having but not recognizing. This dilemma is one we face in ongoing scenarios of failing to recognize who we REALLY are, illustrating our “forgetfulness”. Recognition is directly tied to spiritual “sight”, which therefore assists us in our “remembering”.
One cannot beat this dead horse enough. The degrees of our spiritual blindness are significant. World history is our best evidence.
As you look around you, you see the continual pursuit of LOVE. Now, how the world defines LOVE, and what LOVE actually is, are worlds apart. LOVE in the world comes equipped with multiple entanglements, including projections, expectations, exclusivity, calls for sacrifice--conditions. The LOVE of GOD is without conditions of any kind--unconditional.
The mere pursuit, even if misdirected or misinterpreted, is evidence that LOVE represents something so fundamental in our spiritual makeup that we are miserable without it, either consciously or unconsciously. We would not even pursue it if it was not a part of our makeup.
Witness the countless ways in which we attempt to bring JOY to ourselves. The forms this takes is not the issue, but the drive to do so. JOY is part of who we are and the reason we pursue it with sometimes reckless abandon.
Aside from the technological and sociological downsides of smartphones and the internet, it is important to notice the drive to feel connected. The sense of isolation is so antithetical to our makeup that we will go to many extremes to escape from it, and often to great extreme. The feeling of ONENESS and inclusion is that which drives us--our remembrance of HOME.
Notice the obsession to look and feel beautiful, no matter what form that may take. There is something deep within us that knows it is beautiful and is trying to display it as confirmation. Those who may appear to be self-denigrating and uncaring about this are only manifesting the unprocessed guilt that they still carry within them. Their guilt is not REAL, merely their identification with it.
All around, there are continual displays of the manifestation of our spiritual REALITY. We need only begin to notice them without, in order to start to recognize them within.
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