I often need to remind myself that this is a personal blog and not a publication that must be delivered on schedule. There are times when something else has its place, not the soaring of consciousness. The inspiration of the part of me that builds, creates, and plays in physical reality is visible and interpretable in the physical world. Many times I have felt that this is less than freely sailing on the infinite ocean of consciousness. According to whom? Has my own value system been wounded, or is the world suggesting this? Perhaps both.
Then I realized that I was deceiving myself. Every action is physical, and every action is spiritual. If I am in denial and resistance toward what is happening, then it becomes trapped in the physical dimension—even if it appears to be a spiritual activity. But if there is no tension in me and I surrender to what I am doing, then that is the pure spirit being born into matter: untouched, innocent, and complete in its lightness.
If, in the middle of the incredible creating that is happening here on our small farm at the edge of the city, I give space to the thought that I should share something valuable, then I am going astray. Not only am I being disrespectful toward Reality, toward myself, and toward the activity inspired by the moment, but if I were to share something, I would also be disrespectful to everyone who reads it—because it would arise from obligation without inspiration.
I had misunderstood how it is possible to move forward in parallel with the different matters of our lives. Which one has its time and space is not decided by the mind, but is created by the moment. If I live this way, then there is no such thing as physical or spiritual activity—there is only a spiritual human being.
Not everyone’s experiential “task” is to work in something “spiritual” or in healing, and to earn a living from it. For most people, it is not. And that is perfectly fine. But if we think of the fulfillment of our spiritual development—and I see this touches many—that our everyday activities must also take place in this “spiritual” zone, then we are limiting the infinite. The multitude of activities created by the Unnameable all carry the spiritual within them, because they were born from it. I believe it is not the practice of spiritual activity that is the privilege, but the spiritual human being that is born in the practice of any activity.
With love,
Your traveling companion
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