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The spiritual individual is not locked into a singular world view. The self-aware spiritualist simultaneously respects “the truth” and sees its inherent instability. The truth morphs throughout history, throughout “time.” The very idea of time itself may be a human invention, an illusion that may one day be shattered.
When your mind broadens in this manner, you realize the limitations of human thought. The situations in which you find yourself do not change. Others do not change. The futility of their narrow-perspective arguments does not change. Instead, you change. Your whole existence shifts to a different frequency, and you will find that you can easily tune out the noises that used to bother you, and you see the world through greater compassion and understanding.
This is the knowledge and wisdom that the original revelations of every religion attempted to teach. But over time they have become distorted, operating by rigid rules and routines, falling into stagnation and moral decay.
The same thing has happened to relationships between men and women. The interplay began as a positive “game,” which by definition should instill joy in its participants. But it has since been appropriated by certain people who are embittered about the opposite sex to disseminate darkness and misery, teaching an attitude of hostility towards life and love itself.
Seek and you shall find. That is what most humans do on a regular basis. If we seek misery, we shall find it. If we expect a certain group of people to be awful and to treat us terribly, then we shall find such people who fit our preconceived notions. Humans will never run out of examples to confirm ingrained biases. This is because we are highly adept at filtering out some aspects of reality and confining our views to a narrow focus.
The petty ways in which human egoism and arrogance destroys logic and objectivity are all too familiar. Intelligence alone is unable to transcend human limitations. We should not be content with mere “facts,” for these are mutable. The moment you are convinced of your rightness is the moment that you have likely stepped over a line to a wrongness.
Life is a continuous lesson. One’s reactions to past wounds and experiences that help define one’s character. Some people come out of adversity stronger than before, having fully absorbed the lessons that help them on the path towards healing and greater joy. Others never move past the injury, seeking revenge and lashing out, continuing the cycles of pain. The difference only takes a small shift in perspective, but many people never make that shift.
Some who do, shift onto the dark path and experience a negative kind of awakening. This can propel them onto a seemingly crystal-clear reality, one which they are convinced is the absolute truth, but what is real?
All we can ever receive are partial viewings of reality. Letting go of certain cherished beliefs about reality is the first step towards the “holy grail” of existence. Those who are embittered by their negative world views refuse to acknowledge this. They want absolutes, certainties and a solid, grounded basis for reality.
This can never be. The world shall always be one step beyond our petty human faculties. That mystery is part of the beauty of existence, and it is a world that we should learn to accept rather than reject. But we are afraid of what lies beyond. We retreat to the comfort of the known — the physical world familiar to us — because it’s all we’ve ever known. The materialist reality is itself an illusion that we are afraid to shatter.
No one can get out of the desert alone. The human being is a herd animal. We know the self through the other. The hermit can reach a degree of understanding deep in introspection, but can he learn to truly love? In the end, we are all interconnected, strand by strand, everything to everything else.
We are each gifted with magnificent consciousness. What we learn in growing up is learning to suppress our innate curiosity and emotion, our true selves. Logic and reason are not the enemies of intuition and spirituality. They all constitute parts of the perfect whole.
This is the path of positivity and light: Overcome your conditioning and forgive past hurts. Face fear itself, because the fear of death keeps you from truly being alive. Continuously challenge yourself. Find your own inner core of strength. Seek awareness and wisdom, examine your life, and question all that is around you. Become the redeemer, the one with purity of intention. Love the world, and become yourself the embodiment of love.