As a being, we have a spiritual side and a worldly side. Our worldly side is elemental, made up of elements, and requires elements for its sustenance. It requires the things that come from the world in order to maintain itself. From a purely nourishment point of view, it has to eat; it has to drink; it has to consume certain things from this world in order for this physical being to stay in existence.
The spiritual side draws its sustenance in different ways. It’s often said that to fully engage the spiritual self there has to be a renunciation of the physical self. There has to be a pushing away of the world from ourselves. There has to be an ability to let go of the connection to the hypnotism of the magnetic poles from the world, so that we somehow stay separated from it.
But in truth we are constantly in both worlds. We are constantly of both worlds. The larger truth is that we are of the spiritual world yet while trapped in this body… trapped in this bag of bones. We have to deal with all of the various elemental forces that are driven through us and become the forces that make us go in different directions.
If we look externally to ourselves, we see sunny days and we see cloudy days. We see days where the weather is wonderful and where the weather is unbearable. The world presents many different faces and we encounter those different faces. That’s just from a level of temperature.
But the world also presents many different faces in the way it interacts with each of us. We are constantly interacting with people. People, depending on their level of awareness, their level of sobriety (when I say sobriety I really mean their level of maturity within their own existence) dependent on those things and people.
We get different attitudes, different situations, thrown at us and we have to learn how to handle them. In addition, there are the responsibilities that come with our existence in the world which have been given to man since the beginning of time; the responsibility of family, the responsibility of community, the responsibility religious observance, all of the various responsibilities.
Then there comes the very difficult and sometimes overwhelming responses to what the world calls “status”, calls “importance”, calls “fame”, calls “that which is necessary for your being in order to maintain its dignity”.
To find an equilibrium in all of these things in the world is a very difficult work and takes an enormous amount of effort. It also takes the ability to see correctly and to see appropriately. If we have been indoctrinated with certain ideas that have fault with in them, we are going to continuously create fault in our own being by trying to imitate these faulty ideas and trying to place ourselves in a position to be able to carry out these faulty ideas…
