Another step into the future.
I had an inspiring conversation with my friend Dani last evening. I was fairly drunk and slightly disoriented, but after a while I was able to find myself and we discussed some interesting topics, especially about the evolution of spirit.
This is what I see to be the purpose of “life”—life being spirit. It is to find its way to an ever expanding knowing, understanding and integration. Revelation, then integration is “The Way”.
When one looks at life this way it is easier to visualize in the present moment—rather than fantasize about the future—how to be in the present and be with the present.
It sounds so abstract and yet it is so direct and simple.
Simply be present; be open and listen with genuine interest. There’s no need for an agenda—other than to be honest in one’s integrity with the posture of these three words . . . ” I Don’t Know”.
This way of being is learned by practice and accumulated effort—like growing a garden.
Seeming mistakes are lessons that have the potential to carry on as assets for understanding.
In life there is no perfection, only success for a short cycle of fluid circumstance and time.
I don’t think one learns without making mistakes. However, repeating the same mistake over and over again without adjusting behavior, well that’s a different conversation. One must have a working relationship with the consciousness and acceptance of the trial-and-error process of life in the evolution of the spirit.
Success is just a next step in the humble path of discovery.
Perfection is an illusion—for some a delusion.
In the effort of seeking, it has more to do with exercising, developing, learning and using one’s skills.
Anything perfect is dead. Everything has flaws, and having them is a guard against egotism.
The main task of existing is to take care of one’s needs and nourish the development of all ones genetic endowments. This includes one’s spiritual responsibilities of awakening the Self to all and everything. The struggle for both work in tandem. That way provision makes sense and the outcome whole. The outcome and nature of it is what one faces in the present.
There is great difficulty in integrating this physical condition of existing, plus the task of material well being and the nourishing and attention that is required for the conscious development of the family of our kind as a whole—the greater whole of all life.
So, where to stand? What to do? What not to do? In the time of total collapse of the human animal species—due to the spiritual malfunctioning of our species—are we now nourishing the essential ’embryo’ of the next level of spiritual development in the consciousness of a new species of another animal kind?