Orthodoxy Transforming Spirituality

I remember watching someone cremated on the banks of the Ganges River. The only things left of the loved one were a pile of brittle, burnt bones. Minerals. Get rid of the water and the air, and you have minerals. And rocks are definitely non-human parts. Or at least we think so until we begin to tread the path of spirituality.

How can all this be? Wonder. Awe. These are the wonderful emotions that flood anyone who really believes these things and allows them to dictate their behavior. Remember, belief brings behavior like clouds bring rain. Or should I say, non-clouds bring non-rain? See? The world we live in is a wonderful place if you lift up your eyes to the truth you were born with.

You have simply forgotten and now you are beginning to remember.

Look at the one you love or the one you hope to love someday. They are a miracle. They are an assembly of parts that are not them, yet, there they are. How precious they are! What a miracle they are! How they should be honored and cherished because they can never be again! At least not like they are right now! Air, water, minerals – all non-human parts – yet, there they are in your arms or the arms of your imagination!

Spirituality will lead you to embrace others in a new, awe-struck way. They are all, along with yourself, miracles: unique, wonderful miracles even if their understanding is faulty and they have failed to remember. If anyone gets on your nerves, don’t get angry at them. Be patient. Remember, they have failed to remember. But they will. Why?

Because misery will drive a person to spirituality eventually. There is no need to preach at them or force anything on them. Misery will drive them like a merciless cowboy drover forcing the cattle to the slaughter. Eventually, misery will either turn a person hopelessly bitter and disappointed, or will drive them to remember the obvious and become the spiritual being they were born to be. Simple as that. Complex as that. Be spiritual and let other people’s circumstances drive them to spirituality.

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