This resonates deeply. I would only add that perhaps the deepest shift is realizing there was never a distance to cross in the first place. We experience separation not because we've moved away from the Divine, but because our mode of participation has become fragmented. From my perspective, awakening is less a journey toward God than a reorganization of consciousness that allows us to participate in the same reality more coherently. The river was always flowing; what changes is our capacity to recognize that we have never truly been outside it.
"We do not enter this world as exiles from God, scrambling to reverse the damage, we enter as expressions of divine yearning taking shape in flesh" is about as close as I've seen anyone else state the exact claim I keep circling from the physics side, just in prayer instead of cosmology. Not a spoonful trying to swim back into an ocean it got separated from by mistake. A spoonful that was always ocean, temporarily shaped, and the whole spiritual task is just noticing that rather than earning it.
I absolutely believe this and on a good day I'm practicing it too. It is such a challenge for me to keep remembering I'm flowing from even though I've not only believed this but taught it for a very long time. I love your words and humor as you make your profound, mystical points. I'm printing this one out.
This resonates deeply. I would only add that perhaps the deepest shift is realizing there was never a distance to cross in the first place. We experience separation not because we've moved away from the Divine, but because our mode of participation has become fragmented. From my perspective, awakening is less a journey toward God than a reorganization of consciousness that allows us to participate in the same reality more coherently. The river was always flowing; what changes is our capacity to recognize that we have never truly been outside it.
"We do not enter this world as exiles from God, scrambling to reverse the damage, we enter as expressions of divine yearning taking shape in flesh" is about as close as I've seen anyone else state the exact claim I keep circling from the physics side, just in prayer instead of cosmology. Not a spoonful trying to swim back into an ocean it got separated from by mistake. A spoonful that was always ocean, temporarily shaped, and the whole spiritual task is just noticing that rather than earning it.
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The journey is about attunement, rather than pilgrimage. Thank you
Wise!
I absolutely believe this and on a good day I'm practicing it too. It is such a challenge for me to keep remembering I'm flowing from even though I've not only believed this but taught it for a very long time. I love your words and humor as you make your profound, mystical points. I'm printing this one out.
So good! ... such a great reminder...
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