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Each of us has a spiritual self that animates our bodies and
infuses our thoughts and feelings. Our language is limited to the world we
know for descriptions of something that perhaps cannot be fully comprehended
by the human mind. Therefore, only metaphors approach the expressions that
give us a true sense of our spiritual nature. The paradox lies in opposing
concepts, all of which are true at the same time. And in harmonizing the
opposites, we begin to know the wonders of the spirit.
The self is not small or big but is both at the same time. Our spirit is like
a drop in the ocean of spiritual energy. Although our spirit seems like a small,
disconnected part of a larger whole, it is still made of the same things and
can become part of the vast ocean once again. Our individual spirit seems to
inhabit our bodies like a passenger in a vehicle but at the same time is not
bound by our bodies. Spirits can reach across the miles to touch the heart of
a loved one or expand to become one with the universe. We may feel small and
perhaps insignificantly young when we look up at the stars, but we are made
of the same basic elements. Perhaps looking at the stars is merely a
reflection of what is going on within each atom and cell of our being. We are
a universe within a universe. Our spirits are ever renewing, yet ageless and
eternal. So the self is not new or old but both at once.
So our spiritual self is not small or big, new or old. We may experience life
as good and bad, right and wrong, happy and sad, but this is the experience
of the material world of dualities, not the truth of our spritual nature. By
going within to touch the eternal and changeless energy at our center, we can
go beyond the contrasting metaphors to the experience of oneness. And in that
connection we can know big and small, new and old, movement and stillness. By
accepting the paradox of spirit, we open ourselves to the fullness of our own
being.
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