TRUE
BEING HAS TO BE BORN IN US, NOT BY DEMOLISHING WHAT WE ARE,
BUT
BY TRANSFORMING OURSELVES INTO WHAT WE TRULY ARE.
HE FIRST STEP IS
TO CONSERVE THE LIFE FORCE, to begin to take care of our bodies in a more
sacred way, not allowing our lives to be ruled by desires. “Much wants more”
is a mental as well as physical occupation. We are avoiding the real issue:
our real Self, our true existence. When we come back to ourselves we begin
to know the movements within the body and mind, the mental caricatures and
games, the subconscious mind with its storehouse of instinctive, uncultured,
uncivilized thoughts. We begin to know our mental processes through
self-knowledge.
|
If you use the contemplative faculty on lower
things, naturally it ends there, you are no longer unfolding from within.
Unless this faculty is focused on a higher goal, the time comes when it
begins to degrade. That is why, as you may have seen, certain qualities or
talents develop in you or others and then gradually subside; that God-given
faculty which was in you had no upward pull. Nevertheless, the contemplative
faculty is found among many high thinkers, especially given today’s focus on
rationality. Often, though, they end up only with scholarship, oratory
capacity and intellectual assertion, the dry intellectuality of mere
thinking. |