Spirituality, all ABOARD in COMPANION SHIP

“In everyone’s heart stirs a great homesickness” Rabbi Seymour Siegel

Spirituality for us is a need for many who crave the sense of belonging. Just like a turtle that is just hatched and knows to go straight to the ocean, and swims for years just to come back to the same seashore it was born. And it does it with no a compass, maybe the compass is built in. If we were to take a lesson from the little turtles then we too will recognize that we as humans are searching to go back to where we belong, this too is built in us. Seek has always been if we look at our history. Our well-known history has left clues for us to understand the significance our ancestors have placed on spirituality. Be it ancient Greeks or Aztecs, or the dazzling buildings that early Egyptians have built for their spiritual masters. If an individual does not nurture the power of heart towards kindness, how can it find its way home? As majority of us feel pure when we act upon the compassion that is within our hearts, that takes us home even for a slight moment we feel blissful.

Our inhabitants of earth is around about seven billion on earth and out of seven billion of us about over six billion of us feels that we need to feel spiritual, and I in my opinion agree. We just have a tendency to tag our spirituality different. But at the end of the day it is private. Yet to share same belief, same point of view seems more rewarding for many of us, thus there are religions. And many of us seek a personal light, personal paradise either within or outside. Know the world in yourself. Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written, and the book of your life, your spirituality, will then be written with gratitude for you exist and you belong to the higher powers that you seek.

We are living in times that strive for so much, so many loads that is put before our senses, thus it somewhat overwhelms many of us, and we tend to shine away from the very light we seek. On the other hand we are told we need to be spiritual more so than we are. The golden rule to remember is balance, as the priests or mullahs would like to guide their flock. As we cannot all go to the mountain tops and live a life of monks, if we did, who then would grow the crops to feed us, so balance is very important, I think.

As the universal question that has forever been asked and still we ask. What and where is God. Answer to this matter is a mystery as it is not verified by many who lived before or science that is highly developed still leaves us with the very same question for all of us. Then we tend to feel that we are not meant to know, yet build our hearts faith, so we may follow the teachings that are on the menu. As when we are young we are absolute masters of our ships knowing precisely where and how we are going to sail in life. But as years are lived and the certainty of time being limited whispers, is this it? And we then are busier to find belonging, also some people think this is it, this is all there is, could it be?

As the proverb says “all seed answer light, but the color is different. The plant reveals what is in the seed” we too are seeds who seek light in our own ways to reach high on sacred skies, and astonishing is the sky, forever mesmerizing us with its decorations, like a supreme work of magic ever assembled in one place for our eyes us here on earth, we all feel awe when we gaze the nights sky. And many of us remember as youngster when our caring parents have taken us to camping adventures, we see the magic as soon as one star falls quickly wishing another. The will to trust in something superior is within us all, most use the word faith is probably in religious content. Yet even the devout faithful sometimes wonder; why must I blindly believe? Why must I trust? Some rather begin the search with doubt, working, climbing the ladder of wisdom. To find a spiritual path we all search and take our pick from the menu. What ever makes sense for individual then the spirituality is obtained with certainty. Everyone finds himself in the world where he belongs. The essential thing is to have a fixed point from which to check its reality now and then. Always watch and follow nature of things, most important nature itself. Those who truly understand spirituality, from all walks of life from every corner of earth will tell you, it is not the difference we need to concentrate of spirituality, rather, the similarity. As each faculty of spirituality has purity in its foundations, we only need to look from the view point of HEART, not so much with our eyes. Then will see.

We, as we grow and experience life should not believe a word without putting its truth to the test; discernment does not grow in laziness; and this faculty of discernment is indispensable to the Seeker. Sound skepticism is the necessary condition for good discernment; but piecemeal criticism is an error. And just like the turtles who hatch from and egg, and go on a journey never taken before, to only come back to the shores where it was born, turtles compass, built in a mysterious way we simply do not understand, just like the silent inner voice of our souls seeking the light to shine like a star in the spiritual skies to belong in spiritual unity and love. We seek quietly as we are spiritual beings. As the spiritual humans know that the gift of Heaven is free, this GIFT of LIFE, is so great that no effort whatever could hope to ‘deserve’ it. Yet it is given as a gift just to find our way back home.