There are many people who are depressed and who do not know how to get out of this condition of depression. Many of them do not even know what the cause of their depression is. Some of them try this and that technique to get out of depression, like taking a vacation, performing physical and mental exercises, etc. Others turn to excessive smoking, drugs, alcohol or sex. Here and there a few commit the ultimate solution to their depression, suicide. Almost all people around these persons who are depressed do not know that they can lift the spirits of the latter through love. In this post I discuss how this can be done. When you become used to this way of helping others you may even detect on your own intuition, without others telling you, the people around you who suffer from depression. Then you can help them get out of this state through love, even if they are not aware of this.
Love Is Some Thing
When I asked my students before to define or describe love most of them said that love is a feeling. Because many know that feelings come and go, so also they think that love comes and goes, like smoke. In other words, most people think that love is ephemeral. It lasts as long as the feeling is there. When the feeling is gone, then love is also gone.
Most people do not realize that love is as real as the stone that they kick on their pathway, as real as the building they are in, as real as their hands and feet. The stone, the building, the hands and the feet are there whether you feel them or not. Love is like that. It is real. It is some thing. Its reality does not depend on our feeling.
Perhaps nobody has understood this so well as the writer to the First Letter of John in the christian Bible. In chapter 4 of this letter he states twice that God is love. Just as God is real and his reality does not depend on our feeling, so is love. In fact at the beginning of this Letter the writer affirms that he has heard this love, he has seen it, he has handled it. For him love is as real as the stone, as the building, as his hands and feet.
You Can Give Love
Because love is some thing, you can give it, just like you give food to your children, you give a paper to someone. The difference is that while the food and paper are visible, love is an invisible reality. It is invisible because nothing can contain it. It is so vast no container can hold it, it is so deep no measurement can fathom it, so high no rocket can reach it. It is in God himself, as the writer of that Letter we referred to above affirms.
Not the Object of a Wish or Good Will
When I say that you can give love I do not mean that you merely wish someone well and love will flow to that person. You can be a person who wishes well being to all but you may not be giving love at all. To give love to someone is to give God himself to that person. And here the most crucial part of the process is obvious. You cannot give God to someone if you yourself do not possess God, if you yourself have not heard of him, seen him, handled him.
But since it is also true that it is in God that we move and have our being, having God is not difficult. It is just a matter of realizing that in God we move and have our being.
Giving Love to Uplift People's Spirits
When we visit a sick person in the hospital we usually bring food or some other help, like cash, to help that sick person. What most people do not realize is that giving food, cash or some other visible thing to a person is not the same as giving love to that person. Giving love is completely different. It is giving ourselves to that person wrapped in the love which comes from God. A little explanation will make this clearer and enable us to give real love to other people to lift their spirits.
Experienced preachers know whether the words they are giving to their audience are received by the people listening or are bouncing back to them. Sincere lovers know whether the words they speak to each other find their way to the heart of their beloved or are just a waste of sound. A child can know whether he is really loved by the person holding him.
Persons can know whether we are giving them God or not. They can know because there is an upliftment that they experience when we give them God or love. We can wrap this love in the words we say, in the hand with which we touch them, or merely in the thought we project to them. But whatever way it is we can give them love and they feel elated and transported to a higher plane of reality.
An Example
I visit a person in the hospital who has been diagnosed by the doctor as someone with a severe and chronic depression. I come to him with nothing in my hands, no food, no flower, no cash. After some words of greeting and informal conversation I project to him the God who is in my heart. I focus on the unseen energy projecting from me to him, giving him God himself. We continue with our conversation. But as we do so a slight change occurs. The person now responds with greater voluntariness, he talks more about himself and his problems. Here I have used words to give love to him.
I project more energy from God to him, the energy which is God himself. I lay my hands on him. Soon the sick person smiles and begins to see light on his condition. This is the continuation of giving love to that person to uplift him. Sooner or later he will get well. This is the way of the touch.
As I leave him I still think of him and continue to project love to him in my thoughts. This is the way of thinking.
The three ways I suggest here are: 1) by our words; 2) by our touch; 3) by our thoughts.
There are others around us who are depressed but have not experienced so acute a depression that they think they have to be hospitalized. They too will be grateful to us if we give them this love of God so that they can be lifted out of themselves: by our words, by our touch, by our thoughts.
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Here are my other blogs which may be of help to you:
http://bit.ly/devspirit
for your spiritual growth
http://bit.ly/alternativehealth
for your health
http://bit.ly/novotrends
for learning about the new trends around us
http://bit.ly/bepaidonline
for earning some income from the Internet
Here are your links to download the e-books for FREE. To download a copy of A NEW CHRIST by Wallace D. Wattles click this website http://bit.ly/anewchrist. To download a free copy of A NEW EARTH by Eckhart Tolle click this website http://bit.ly/ebookanewearth. I hope that you enjoy reading these free e-books and profit much from them, as I have also profited greatly from them.
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How to Fill the Void You Feel Within
You have come to a point in your life when you feel that deep inside you there is something lacking that should be there. You feel there is a void within you that needs to be filled with something you do not have any idea about. So what do you do?
Many Paths, Same Destination
You are not alone. Millions of people around the world feel the way you do. All of you have come to a point where you think there is something lacking in your life and you cannot define it. But you come to this point from different backgrounds and through different paths.
Some of you may be successful professionals: doctors, nurses, lawyers, government officials, etc. Others may be failures in their line of work. Some of you may be respected in your society: clergymen and bible women, evangelists, actors, actresses, role models in one way or another. Others may be just plain farmers or housewives.
Some get this feeling after succeeding in their chosen careers. Despite their success they feel empty deep inside. Others fall into this depressing state while trying to succeed and failing in their attempt.
Many Pastimes, Many Advices, None of Any Avail
Some of you might have tried to fill this void with drugs, with alcohol, with sexual excesses and chain smoking. But the void has not gone away. Others might have tried clubbing and pubbing, getting to know more people in a socializing atmosphere and drinking to your heart's content with your friends. But the void keeps on tugging at your heart.
If you have contacted some religious people they might have advised you to pray, to practice meditation, to put God into your heart, because they say there is a God-shaped vacuum in your heart which only God can fill in. A Christian might have told you to accept Jesus as your Savior and Lord. A Muslim might have told you to read the Qur'an and follow the will of Allah. A Buddhist might have advised you to look deeper into your self and see what is lacking there and contemplate nothingness. But all these advices have left you empty deep inside yourself.
You might have gone to a psychiatrist, and she has prescribed some medicines for you to take and mind exercises for you to undergo after patiently listening to your stories and complaints. But still the emptiness is there in your heart.
So what can you do to fill this void you feel within?
The Cause of this Void
Most do not realize what the cause of this void or feeling of emptiness is. And because they do not know the cause, they do not know the cure or answer to this problem. They indiscriminately fill this void with things which really do not satisfy.
The cause of this void is in our being, the way we are. We are beings who experience and long for, the infinite.
While everyday we experience finiteness or limitations, we also experience the infinite. Given any number, we can always add another number, even if the length of that number has gone around the earth many times. Given any information we always long for more information. We are always on the lookout for something new. And there is no end to this. This is the indication that we long for something beyond ourselves, something infinitely greater than ourselves.
Because we experience and long for the infinite we are always searching for this and unless this longing for the infinite is satisfied we can never fill that void in our heart. That void needs to be filled with something infinite. It cannot be filled with money, things, sexual enjoyment, gadgets, think what you may.
Fill the Void with the Infinite
If you want to escape this feeling of emptiness deep within you, then fill your life with the Infinite. Notice that I did not say God, because again for most people their God is someone who is just greater than themselves in some ways. In fact for many people God is a concept only. They have not experienced him.
You ask then, How can I fill my life with the Infinite?
The Infinite is in you and around you. You can experience him or her now. If you have gone to a field consider the infinite variety of plants and other organisms there. Within you there is an infinite power which drives you to move on and on. If you are in your office consider the infinite data pouring in and passing through your office, through your computers and mobile phones.
Acknowledge the presence of this Infinite and surrender yourself to him or her. Is doesn't matter what gender you put the Infinite under, masculine, feminine or in-between. In a sense he is genderless, in another sense he is gender-full.
Why do you need to surrender to this Infinite? Because he or she loves you with an infinite love. He/she wants you to live with you forever. He fills you with all the things you need in life. And until you surrender to his/her love you will never be satisfied in life.
If you are a Christian, you believe that this Infinite has manifested himself completely in Jesus. If you are a Muslim you believe that Allah is your infinite destination. If you are a Buddhist you know that Enlightenment about this Infinite is your goal in life.
The void you feel within can only be filled by the Infinite who is inside you, around you, over you, under you, and you fill this void with the Infinite by surrendering your life to him, accepting his total unconditional love of you.
Many Paths, Same Destination
You are not alone. Millions of people around the world feel the way you do. All of you have come to a point where you think there is something lacking in your life and you cannot define it. But you come to this point from different backgrounds and through different paths.
Some of you may be successful professionals: doctors, nurses, lawyers, government officials, etc. Others may be failures in their line of work. Some of you may be respected in your society: clergymen and bible women, evangelists, actors, actresses, role models in one way or another. Others may be just plain farmers or housewives.
Some get this feeling after succeeding in their chosen careers. Despite their success they feel empty deep inside. Others fall into this depressing state while trying to succeed and failing in their attempt.
Many Pastimes, Many Advices, None of Any Avail
Some of you might have tried to fill this void with drugs, with alcohol, with sexual excesses and chain smoking. But the void has not gone away. Others might have tried clubbing and pubbing, getting to know more people in a socializing atmosphere and drinking to your heart's content with your friends. But the void keeps on tugging at your heart.
If you have contacted some religious people they might have advised you to pray, to practice meditation, to put God into your heart, because they say there is a God-shaped vacuum in your heart which only God can fill in. A Christian might have told you to accept Jesus as your Savior and Lord. A Muslim might have told you to read the Qur'an and follow the will of Allah. A Buddhist might have advised you to look deeper into your self and see what is lacking there and contemplate nothingness. But all these advices have left you empty deep inside yourself.
You might have gone to a psychiatrist, and she has prescribed some medicines for you to take and mind exercises for you to undergo after patiently listening to your stories and complaints. But still the emptiness is there in your heart.
So what can you do to fill this void you feel within?
The Cause of this Void
Most do not realize what the cause of this void or feeling of emptiness is. And because they do not know the cause, they do not know the cure or answer to this problem. They indiscriminately fill this void with things which really do not satisfy.
The cause of this void is in our being, the way we are. We are beings who experience and long for, the infinite.
While everyday we experience finiteness or limitations, we also experience the infinite. Given any number, we can always add another number, even if the length of that number has gone around the earth many times. Given any information we always long for more information. We are always on the lookout for something new. And there is no end to this. This is the indication that we long for something beyond ourselves, something infinitely greater than ourselves.
Because we experience and long for the infinite we are always searching for this and unless this longing for the infinite is satisfied we can never fill that void in our heart. That void needs to be filled with something infinite. It cannot be filled with money, things, sexual enjoyment, gadgets, think what you may.
Fill the Void with the Infinite
If you want to escape this feeling of emptiness deep within you, then fill your life with the Infinite. Notice that I did not say God, because again for most people their God is someone who is just greater than themselves in some ways. In fact for many people God is a concept only. They have not experienced him.
You ask then, How can I fill my life with the Infinite?
The Infinite is in you and around you. You can experience him or her now. If you have gone to a field consider the infinite variety of plants and other organisms there. Within you there is an infinite power which drives you to move on and on. If you are in your office consider the infinite data pouring in and passing through your office, through your computers and mobile phones.
Acknowledge the presence of this Infinite and surrender yourself to him or her. Is doesn't matter what gender you put the Infinite under, masculine, feminine or in-between. In a sense he is genderless, in another sense he is gender-full.
Why do you need to surrender to this Infinite? Because he or she loves you with an infinite love. He/she wants you to live with you forever. He fills you with all the things you need in life. And until you surrender to his/her love you will never be satisfied in life.
If you are a Christian, you believe that this Infinite has manifested himself completely in Jesus. If you are a Muslim you believe that Allah is your infinite destination. If you are a Buddhist you know that Enlightenment about this Infinite is your goal in life.
The void you feel within can only be filled by the Infinite who is inside you, around you, over you, under you, and you fill this void with the Infinite by surrendering your life to him, accepting his total unconditional love of you.
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Here are my other blogs which may be of help to you:
http://bit.ly/spiritdev for your spiritual growth
http://bit.ly/alterhealthcare for your health
http://bit.ly/novotrends for learning about the new trends around us
http://bit.ly/bepaidonline for earning some income from the Internet
Here are your links to download the e-books for FREE. To download a copy of A NEW CHRIST by Wallace D. Wattles click this website http://bit.ly/anewchrist. To download a free copy of A NEW EARTH by Eckhart Tolle click this website http://bit.ly/ebookanewearth. I hope that you enjoy reading these free e-books and profit much from them, as I have also profited greatly from them.
How to Properly Release the Negative Energy Built Up Inside You
There is a pollution that is worse than air, water or soil pollution. It is a pollution which creates world wars.
Air pollution contaminates the oxygen we breathe and eventually chokes us. Water pollution makes dirty the water we need to drink and so poisons our body. Soil pollution produces toxic wastes which eventually enters our physical system. But all these forms of pollution only touch our bodies and only indirectly touch our minds.
A Pollution Worse Than Air, Water and Soil Pollution
But a pollution worse than these forms of pollution directly affects our minds and turns them into an arsenal of negative energy which fuels discords, disagreements, conflicts and eventually wars.
This is the pollution of negative energy around us and inside us.
Writers who discuss energy pollution usually single out only noise, heat and light pollution. They do not realize that energy pollution extends beyond the noise, the heat and light around us.
Pollution of negative energy contaminates the heart of human beings with hate, resentment, anger, envy, jealousy, fear, doubt and a host of other negative emotions.
How Do You Properly Dispose of This Negative Energy?
The problem is how do you properly release this kind of energy built up inside you so that it does not contaminate you and others?
Today everywhere students are taught on proper waste disposal or management: segregate the waste, then re-use, re-cycle, and re-turn the rest safely to the earth. But they are not taught how to properly dispose of harmful energy that piles up within them: anger, hate, fear, etc.
In some houses when husband and wife fight they throw things around and away. Their throwing of things is a symbolic gesture of throwing the bad feelings they have towards each other. But this does not work well. Things are destroyed and after the fight, essential furniture has to be bought again or repaired.
Negative energy is like garbage. If you do not dispose of it properly it will pollute the atmosphere. This energy and negative emotions between a fighting husband and wife spread to their children, neighbors and in-laws. Negative energy between nations eventually becomes war.
So how do you properly release the negative energy built up inside you so that it does not pollute the atmosphere?
The First Step: Understand What Negative Energy Is
What you need to consider first if you want to properly release this negative energy is to understand that it is a negative energy. It is not a positive energy. Because it is negative, you cannot throw it away properly. It is an energy which is the lack of something. You cannot throw something that is not there. That is why it is called negative because it is a lack. There is something lacking in that energy.
Positive energy is the presence of something. That is why it is called positive. It posits something to be there. Its opposite is the absence of something. That is why it is called negative, it negates something which should be there.
Anger, resentment, hate, and such like emotions are forms of non-positive energy. They lack something. Anger lacks kindness, resentment lacks acceptance, hate lacks love.
Second Step: Put in Positive Emotions
After realizing that negative emotions or energy expresses a lack, you need to fill the lack with a positive emotion. Feed your anger with kindness, your resentment with acceptance, your hating somebody with love. If you can, say that Prayer of Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone which starts with the words “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow your love.”
Now you may object. That precisely is your problem, you cannot put positive energy into your negative emotions, you cannot put kindness into your angry heart, you cannot put love where you feel just hate, etc.
Third Step: Realize the Importance of Having Positive Instead of Negative Emotions
So the third step is to realize that in the long run the harmful energies and emotions are going to destroy your life, if you do not dispose of them properly. And the only way to dispose of them properly is by putting in positive emotions and energy in that part of your life which lack these.
Choose Wisely
In the final analysis, the choice is up to you. You can live positively or you can live negatively. You can live with fullness of joy, happiness, and love or you can choose to live with the lack of these making you morose, sad and hateful. Dispose of your negative emotions and energies properly by putting in the positive emotions and energies. With time and with the help of your God, whatever and whoever you conceive him to be, you will become a positive person, full of warmth, vigor and joy.
Air pollution contaminates the oxygen we breathe and eventually chokes us. Water pollution makes dirty the water we need to drink and so poisons our body. Soil pollution produces toxic wastes which eventually enters our physical system. But all these forms of pollution only touch our bodies and only indirectly touch our minds.
A Pollution Worse Than Air, Water and Soil Pollution
But a pollution worse than these forms of pollution directly affects our minds and turns them into an arsenal of negative energy which fuels discords, disagreements, conflicts and eventually wars.
This is the pollution of negative energy around us and inside us.
Writers who discuss energy pollution usually single out only noise, heat and light pollution. They do not realize that energy pollution extends beyond the noise, the heat and light around us.
Pollution of negative energy contaminates the heart of human beings with hate, resentment, anger, envy, jealousy, fear, doubt and a host of other negative emotions.
How Do You Properly Dispose of This Negative Energy?
The problem is how do you properly release this kind of energy built up inside you so that it does not contaminate you and others?
Today everywhere students are taught on proper waste disposal or management: segregate the waste, then re-use, re-cycle, and re-turn the rest safely to the earth. But they are not taught how to properly dispose of harmful energy that piles up within them: anger, hate, fear, etc.
In some houses when husband and wife fight they throw things around and away. Their throwing of things is a symbolic gesture of throwing the bad feelings they have towards each other. But this does not work well. Things are destroyed and after the fight, essential furniture has to be bought again or repaired.
Negative energy is like garbage. If you do not dispose of it properly it will pollute the atmosphere. This energy and negative emotions between a fighting husband and wife spread to their children, neighbors and in-laws. Negative energy between nations eventually becomes war.
So how do you properly release the negative energy built up inside you so that it does not pollute the atmosphere?
The First Step: Understand What Negative Energy Is
What you need to consider first if you want to properly release this negative energy is to understand that it is a negative energy. It is not a positive energy. Because it is negative, you cannot throw it away properly. It is an energy which is the lack of something. You cannot throw something that is not there. That is why it is called negative because it is a lack. There is something lacking in that energy.
Positive energy is the presence of something. That is why it is called positive. It posits something to be there. Its opposite is the absence of something. That is why it is called negative, it negates something which should be there.
Anger, resentment, hate, and such like emotions are forms of non-positive energy. They lack something. Anger lacks kindness, resentment lacks acceptance, hate lacks love.
Second Step: Put in Positive Emotions
After realizing that negative emotions or energy expresses a lack, you need to fill the lack with a positive emotion. Feed your anger with kindness, your resentment with acceptance, your hating somebody with love. If you can, say that Prayer of Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone which starts with the words “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow your love.”
Now you may object. That precisely is your problem, you cannot put positive energy into your negative emotions, you cannot put kindness into your angry heart, you cannot put love where you feel just hate, etc.
Third Step: Realize the Importance of Having Positive Instead of Negative Emotions
So the third step is to realize that in the long run the harmful energies and emotions are going to destroy your life, if you do not dispose of them properly. And the only way to dispose of them properly is by putting in positive emotions and energy in that part of your life which lack these.
Choose Wisely
In the final analysis, the choice is up to you. You can live positively or you can live negatively. You can live with fullness of joy, happiness, and love or you can choose to live with the lack of these making you morose, sad and hateful. Dispose of your negative emotions and energies properly by putting in the positive emotions and energies. With time and with the help of your God, whatever and whoever you conceive him to be, you will become a positive person, full of warmth, vigor and joy.
Click Here!
Here are my other blogs which may be of help to you:
http://bit.ly/spiritdev for your spiritual growth
http://bit.ly/alterhealthcare for your health
http://bit.ly/novotrends for learning about the new trends around us
http://bit.ly/bepaidonline for earning some income from the Internet
Here are your links to download the e-books for FREE. To download a copy of A NEW CHRIST by Wallace D. Wattles click this website http://bit.ly/anewchrist. To download a free copy of A NEW EARTH by Eckhart Tolle click this website http://bit.ly/ebookanewearth. I hope that you enjoy reading these free e-books and profit much from them, as I have also profited greatly from them.
How to Start Your Spiritual Journey
Welcome aboard on a spiritual journey! You may be wondering what a spiritual journey is. Well, it is the most exciting of all journeys and it is better than all other journeys combined. I hope to tell you here how you can start your spiritual journey. But first let us know what a spiritual journey is.
A spiritual journey can be known by comparing it with other kinds of journeys. Let us compare it with physical and mental journeys.
Physical, Mental and Spiritual Journeys Compared
In a physical journey we have a physical destination. It does not matter how near or how far that destination is. There is a place, a physical destination where a journey will end. It may be the next town, or the next country, a city halfway around the globe, or the next planet, or even a far away star. No matter what it is, there is a physical destination.
In a mental journey there is also a destination. Our mind will come to dwell on something. It might be the ideas of wise men who lived centuries before us, like Socrates or Aristotle. Our mind will travel to the time when they had these ideas. It is a destination in time, back to the time of the men and women who produced the ideas that we want to dwell on.
In a physical journey we need to have a physical means to get to our destination. It may be our feet, a bicycle, a car, a train, a boat or an airplane, or a rocket plane or a combination of any of these. We include also the food while we are in this or that kind of transportation.
In a mental journey we need also to have mental means to get to our mental destination. This usually consists of our brain, our mind, our imagination, our emotions, the books around us, the men and women who knew the men whose ideas we want our mind to come to.
Furthermore in a physical and mental journey we need to have a purpose why we want to get there, even if it is just to satisfy our curiosity, just to see the place or feel the feelings of those men involved in a story or drama.
And when we embark upon a journey for the first time we need to have a guide, either a person from whom we can ask ideas about our destination and the means to get there, or one who will go with us like a tourist guide, or at least a map or written direction where to start, what transportation to take, the sign or signs that tell us we shall have reached our destination.
If you want to start your spiritual journey you need to know these: your destination, the means to get there, the purpose why you want to get there, a guide to help you get there. These are the elements of a journey and they are all present in a physical, mental, or spiritual journey.
The destination in a spiritual journey is the world of the spirits, and ultimately the Original Spirit himself. If the destination of a physical journey is a place, that of a mental journey ideas in time, the destination of a spiritual journey is a spiritual one, the world of the spirits and ultimately the Original Spirit from whom all came from.
The means to get to the world of the spirits and the Original Spirit consists of spiritual means. These are basically faith, hope and love that work in solitary prayer.
The purpose of a spiritual journey can also be curiosity, but more than this, it is to enjoy life to the fullest possible that we can attain.
The guide on a spiritual journey may be a spiritual person who himself has undertaken this journey or the written guides left by spiritual persons, like the Bible for Christians, the Qur’an for Muslims, the Trepitaka of Buddhism, or the Bhagavad Gita of the Hindus.
Are You Ready to Undertake a Spiritual Journey?
After learning something about the elements of this journey you need to ascertain whether you are ready to undertake this journey on your own. Children do not usually undertake a physical journey on their own. They need adults to accompany them. A certain level of maturity is needed to undertake even just a physical journey on one’s own.
So also you need to have a certain spiritual maturity in order to undertake the spiritual journey on your own. How do you know you have this maturity? In a physical journey usually the age and the educational background of a person are considered. In a spiritual journey, your spiritual age and knowledge of spiritual things are also to be considered. How do you know you have reached this spiritual age since it is not measured by years, unlike in physical age? You will know that you have reached this spiritual age if you have fallen in love with your God, just as in normal life falling in love with someone is an indication that you have reached a certain physical degree of maturity.
The Greatest of All Journeys
And why do I say that you are undergoing the greatest of all journeys when you start on a spiritual journey? It is because in a spiritual journey you are going to a place which is no place at all but a presence in all the places in the universe and you are going to a time which is not a time but an eternity which includes all time, from past to present to future. For the spirit is not bound by space and time, and you are going to that place of the spirit who transcends space and time. Briefly put, in a spiritual journey you are going to all places and to all times. This cannot be done in a physical journey because you only have one body. As a body you can be present only at one place in one time. But with the spirit you can be present to all places at the same time. An analogy may help clarify this if you have ridden a plane.
When you ride in a plane you begin by being present in the airport. When your plane goes up the air you leave the airport but you begin to look at the place surrounding the airport. Now you begin to see more places at once, not just the airport, a single place. By your vision you are present to all these places below you at the same time. So also by spirit you can be present to all of creation when you go beyond them.
Starting This Journey
And how do you start this journey? Assuming that you have fallen in love with the Original Spirit in whatever manifestation he has revealed himself to you, you take his personal guide or the written guides left by spiritual men and women of all ages. Each person will take a different kind according to his preference.
In my case my guides were the Christian Bible and the written works of Juan de Yepes Alvarez, a spiritual man who lived in the 16th century.
May I share with you the prescription of this man as you begin this journey. He said that if you want to reach your spiritual destination in a very short time you need to take these steps: 1. Desire to have pleasure in nothing; 2. Desire to possess nothing; 3. Desire to be nothing, and 4. Desire to know nothing.
If you have an acquaintance with Buddhism these prescriptions of Juan de Yepes Alvarez are like those in Buddhism, where we are urged not to desire anything because desire is the cause of suffering.
The most practical advice I can give you as you start your spiritual journey is to desire above all to reach and be united with the Original Spirit and to desire nothing that may hinder you in reaching this goal. Do not desire material goods, physical pleasure, mental enjoyment or any kind of pleasure if this will hinder you in reaching your goal, union with the Original Spirit.
Bon voyage on your spiritual journey.
A spiritual journey can be known by comparing it with other kinds of journeys. Let us compare it with physical and mental journeys.
Physical, Mental and Spiritual Journeys Compared
In a physical journey we have a physical destination. It does not matter how near or how far that destination is. There is a place, a physical destination where a journey will end. It may be the next town, or the next country, a city halfway around the globe, or the next planet, or even a far away star. No matter what it is, there is a physical destination.
In a mental journey there is also a destination. Our mind will come to dwell on something. It might be the ideas of wise men who lived centuries before us, like Socrates or Aristotle. Our mind will travel to the time when they had these ideas. It is a destination in time, back to the time of the men and women who produced the ideas that we want to dwell on.
In a physical journey we need to have a physical means to get to our destination. It may be our feet, a bicycle, a car, a train, a boat or an airplane, or a rocket plane or a combination of any of these. We include also the food while we are in this or that kind of transportation.
In a mental journey we need also to have mental means to get to our mental destination. This usually consists of our brain, our mind, our imagination, our emotions, the books around us, the men and women who knew the men whose ideas we want our mind to come to.
Furthermore in a physical and mental journey we need to have a purpose why we want to get there, even if it is just to satisfy our curiosity, just to see the place or feel the feelings of those men involved in a story or drama.
And when we embark upon a journey for the first time we need to have a guide, either a person from whom we can ask ideas about our destination and the means to get there, or one who will go with us like a tourist guide, or at least a map or written direction where to start, what transportation to take, the sign or signs that tell us we shall have reached our destination.
If you want to start your spiritual journey you need to know these: your destination, the means to get there, the purpose why you want to get there, a guide to help you get there. These are the elements of a journey and they are all present in a physical, mental, or spiritual journey.
The destination in a spiritual journey is the world of the spirits, and ultimately the Original Spirit himself. If the destination of a physical journey is a place, that of a mental journey ideas in time, the destination of a spiritual journey is a spiritual one, the world of the spirits and ultimately the Original Spirit from whom all came from.
The means to get to the world of the spirits and the Original Spirit consists of spiritual means. These are basically faith, hope and love that work in solitary prayer.
The purpose of a spiritual journey can also be curiosity, but more than this, it is to enjoy life to the fullest possible that we can attain.
The guide on a spiritual journey may be a spiritual person who himself has undertaken this journey or the written guides left by spiritual persons, like the Bible for Christians, the Qur’an for Muslims, the Trepitaka of Buddhism, or the Bhagavad Gita of the Hindus.
Are You Ready to Undertake a Spiritual Journey?
After learning something about the elements of this journey you need to ascertain whether you are ready to undertake this journey on your own. Children do not usually undertake a physical journey on their own. They need adults to accompany them. A certain level of maturity is needed to undertake even just a physical journey on one’s own.
So also you need to have a certain spiritual maturity in order to undertake the spiritual journey on your own. How do you know you have this maturity? In a physical journey usually the age and the educational background of a person are considered. In a spiritual journey, your spiritual age and knowledge of spiritual things are also to be considered. How do you know you have reached this spiritual age since it is not measured by years, unlike in physical age? You will know that you have reached this spiritual age if you have fallen in love with your God, just as in normal life falling in love with someone is an indication that you have reached a certain physical degree of maturity.
The Greatest of All Journeys
And why do I say that you are undergoing the greatest of all journeys when you start on a spiritual journey? It is because in a spiritual journey you are going to a place which is no place at all but a presence in all the places in the universe and you are going to a time which is not a time but an eternity which includes all time, from past to present to future. For the spirit is not bound by space and time, and you are going to that place of the spirit who transcends space and time. Briefly put, in a spiritual journey you are going to all places and to all times. This cannot be done in a physical journey because you only have one body. As a body you can be present only at one place in one time. But with the spirit you can be present to all places at the same time. An analogy may help clarify this if you have ridden a plane.
When you ride in a plane you begin by being present in the airport. When your plane goes up the air you leave the airport but you begin to look at the place surrounding the airport. Now you begin to see more places at once, not just the airport, a single place. By your vision you are present to all these places below you at the same time. So also by spirit you can be present to all of creation when you go beyond them.
Starting This Journey
And how do you start this journey? Assuming that you have fallen in love with the Original Spirit in whatever manifestation he has revealed himself to you, you take his personal guide or the written guides left by spiritual men and women of all ages. Each person will take a different kind according to his preference.
In my case my guides were the Christian Bible and the written works of Juan de Yepes Alvarez, a spiritual man who lived in the 16th century.
May I share with you the prescription of this man as you begin this journey. He said that if you want to reach your spiritual destination in a very short time you need to take these steps: 1. Desire to have pleasure in nothing; 2. Desire to possess nothing; 3. Desire to be nothing, and 4. Desire to know nothing.
If you have an acquaintance with Buddhism these prescriptions of Juan de Yepes Alvarez are like those in Buddhism, where we are urged not to desire anything because desire is the cause of suffering.
The most practical advice I can give you as you start your spiritual journey is to desire above all to reach and be united with the Original Spirit and to desire nothing that may hinder you in reaching this goal. Do not desire material goods, physical pleasure, mental enjoyment or any kind of pleasure if this will hinder you in reaching your goal, union with the Original Spirit.
Bon voyage on your spiritual journey.
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