One of our most touted traits as humans is that we are social beings. However true this may be, we are spiritual beings first. If there is a common thread for the planet and even the universe, it is spiritual. The Ancients strengthened their awareness of this connection by learning more about the natural and supernatural worlds. They sensed, that despite countless physical differences throughout these worlds, there was a greater similarity beyond the visual. Therefore, their first need was not to be social and to be with someone. Their greater need was to remain interwoven with the common thread. Even if they didn't understand everything, the Ancients followed their intuitive sense that all things above and below share a spiritual heritage and thus a need to remain in sync.
Being aware and seeking harmony with the spiritual component of life, places us right in the path of our purposes and passions. The collision is unavoidable. This alone led the Ancients to the thousands of discoveries that allowed them to grow and prosper. These discoveries were not as much discoveries (humans figuring them out) as they were revealings (human mind maturing, expanding and evolving the more it became in sync with everything else).
This is still available to us today. The more time we spend strengthening our communication with the spiritual, the more we will receive revealings of potentials and possibilities. It will happen because we will become aware of why we are and who we are. The soul will no longer search for itself in someone else. Harmony won't allow it. The overwhelming and constant need to be with someone in order to feel complete will then find its rightful, less dominant, resting place. It will only rise when it is well with our souls.
First....I am sooo IN LOVE WITH YOUR MUSIC PLAYLIST!! It is one of the best I have heard in a long time I kknow I have most of the same songs downloaded to my computer.
ReplyDeleteNow, onto your post. That was perfectly stated. Its amazing how people will try to "find" themselves by entering into relationships. That is no way to feel complete. You have so much wisdom and I am glad that you are letting the public receive it. Keep speaking the truth....much respect!
Fabulous! Besides listening to the music sometimes as a sleeping pill, I use it frequently while in the kitchen preparing food and then while on the computer preparing articles.
ReplyDelete"You complete me" from Jerry Maguire is another example of the popularization of a falsehood. What else are we to think when bombarded with similar messages from birth such as "my other half" and "my better half?"
Asante to the revealings of the spirit!
I agree with your Jerry Maguire reference. People have become desensitized by the media when it come to the true meaning of love and what it really means to feel complete. That is something that has to come from within so that it can be manifested outward.
ReplyDeleteAs always, many wise words my friend.
ReplyDeleteAsante to both of you. It's these types of social interactions on the essential level that add a little sugar, a little spice to the core of life - as opposed to the meanderings on purely social networks.
ReplyDeleteMy sister says you don't get love, you give it. To me this means we should stop looking for love and do our best to be able to give it and let that alone be our satisfaction so that when it's not returned, we don't go berserk, fall apart or feel all sorts of negativity that destroys our multiple levels of health.
...authentic love is about how much you give...
ReplyDeleteIndia Arie, Wings of Forgiveness
Love exists on so many levels, many that man will never come to understand in this realm. You are correct in saying that the giver of love touches on the greatness of the spirit but the recipient of love touches it equally. When one feels pain over love lost or love unrequited it is only because Love although never self-seeking, always seeks itself. Inevitable dismay arises when it is not allowed to be( think carefully about Adam and Eve). There's nothing inherently wrong with seeking love on a corporal level, but that's all it is, a level. When you reach a higher level another aspect of love is "revealed" to you. Just continue to take care of those who have not arrived to the position that grace has provided for you. Continue to reach back and lend your hand to help others "up" as you have through the writings. I am proud of you.
ReplyDeletePlenty of thoughts generated by your thoughtful and interesting response. There are several conversations that could arise. For now I want to make sure others maintain the essence of what I hope the article offers.
ReplyDeleteWe cannot love unless we trust life to our greatest resource - spirit. We can feel powerful devotion without it yet it ain't love.
Love must have an inward, upward, downward and surrounding awareness plus a time awareness. For love to exist it must desire the full range of the spirit.
To love means to seek the spiritual first and not another human to share life with. Love does not seek out happiness. It seeks to fill life with the full range of spirit - to be fullyfilled.
By this process we get back to love - back to the spirit. We find out what we're about foremost before trying to get to know others deeply. By this "first-things-first" process we become attuned with happiness. The kind of happiness that has little to do with human-shaped happiness.
When you are in love, happiness finds you where you are.
To be clear, human love without spirit is not love at all. Human love with mind, body, heart and soul is not love. It is not a level of love.
When many humans use "soul" in connection with love, I suspect there is often a disconnection. There is no sense that their soul is the same as their spirit. I am certain this ignorance exists having lived and seen the outcome of many mind/body/heart/soul-confessed loves. No spirit near it.
Once we begin seeking love via the spirit with just one of the awarenesses proposed above, we will be married one by one to the others. The spirit and the spiritual awareness process is the only thing that can complete us.
All praises to the sacred source. Ashe. Selah.