Asking For Directions

Everyone requires help. Everyone. There is a part of us though, and not a good part, that tries to convince us we do not need help, we can do it on our own. Now if it a case of putting something together without first reading the directions and finding ourselves with a half assembled something or other that has to be disassembled because we left a key part out or refusing to ask for directions when "lost" are one thing, but what of our spiritual life?

Thinking we can "do it on our own" in this area invariably leads to needless difficulty and often real pain. The problem lies in self, manifesting as fear, that we will either be judged harshly or somehow we are supposed to know how to live spiritually, the truth of being just "popping" into our consciousness. Nonsense. Every spiritual teacher has stood in this place. Without exception. Jesus, Buddha, Moses and others all had teachers, all learned as they grew spiritually, their consciousness  raised as a result. Now you and I may never have the kind of direct access that some have had to the Creative Intelligence that governs everything, but it matters not. Our job is seek where we are, and as has been said, when the student is ready the teacher will appear.

So find a fellowship of like minded individuals and ask questions, and then follow directions. There will be missteps along the way but these often provide some of the most powerful lessons. And when the adversary, fear, often cloaked in pride, whispers in our ear that we don't need help we now know this is the moment to reach out, for if we fail to do so, we open ourselves to all manner of spiritual unease and disease opening the door to the bondage of self. Oh, and this Christmas, maybe read the directions before assembly?

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