I maintain that most of what we are taught about life, how
to live it, and what makes for a good life is false and contrary to the
life-giving vitality of spirit. Our minds have become cluttered with so much
programming that we scarcely feel the intuitive currents of life, which set the
spirit free to explore new frontiers of freedom and love in our daily living.
And yet the spirit calls the heart to respond in full measure to its desire to
break free of the imaginary bonds of belief and fear, and awaken from the dream
of ego to new vistas of liberating insight and benevolent participation in
life.
~ Adyashanti ~
Thoreau wrote: “The greater part of what my neighbors call
good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very
likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?
. . . I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.” Why is
it that our culture produces so few Thoreaus or Whitmans and never seems to
heed their call to wake up to a new vision of life? We seem to want their
freedom of mind and spirit, but lack the conviction to act on it. And when it
comes to transformation, thought without action degrades into mere belief and
lacks the vital impetus that gives life the opening to fl ow in new directions
of freedom and creativity. It is as if we have become so addicted to the
life-numbing comforts of modernity that we cannot summon the vitality to
transform our dissatisfaction into positive spiritual growth.
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