Got what it takes? Meditation for 2/7/14

Kiawah Island; SC

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is the light, not our darkness that frightens us most.”  -  Marianne Wilson

     Much more energy is spent avoiding or fighting things we fear than creating or developing our potential.  And when it comes to doing the work necessary to follow the spiritual path, this is especially true.  To the one who has never attempted it, the path looks like the way of the weak.  Besides being weak, why would one need “an invisible man in the sky” to give their life meaning?  But as with everything spiritual, the truth is the exact opposite of the perceptions of our ego.

     When we first make the determination that we are going to focus on and listen to the small still voice within we realize the need to hear the voice better.  When we finally go beyond paying lip service to this notion and begin the attempt to actually do this we start detaching from and observing the incessant chatter in our heads.  “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” was the World War II era quote by F.D.R.  And early on the road to spirituality, allowing ourselves to realize how completely our ego and society at large dominates us with fear is an unpalatable task.  This is the first and one of the most difficult barriers to penetrate – our ego fights us at every turn when we try to detach from its falsehoods.  It is terrified of death, and rightly so as we have conditioned it to think that it IS who we are for our whole lives. 

     When we start hearing the voice more clearly we face many more obstacles - all of which seem very real until we break through them.  We fear that a spiritual life means we “won’t have fun anymore” when in reality we come to realize that living in an illusion isn't fun at all.  We fear that detaching from ourselves will separate us from our fellows, when in reality they will be drawn to us like never before.  As we are shown more along the path, we come to fear that we cannot handle the spiritual power that is ours to tap into, when in reality the spirit will never give us more than we can handle.  And when it comes to actually coming face to face with the divine – we fear all manner of things.  We fear letting go of our tethers to what we have come to believe life is, we fear that we will be found unworthy of our birthright, we fear that we will get lost along the way and not be able to find our way back – the fears go on and on.  But the benefits that we experience all along this path are the best things a human can experience.  Yes, we all fear the light – and we fear it in different ways and in different intensities at different stages of our development.  But to allow our fears to make us quit before the miracle happens?  That indeed is a tragedy – one that happens much more often than enlightenment ever does.

Today, may I stay the course.

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David