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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. It 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, it 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 spiritual 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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