Thursday, October 24, 2019

Mysterious


I used to think of the mysterious and the spiritual as ineffable, as something out there above it all. We had to work toward it or search for it beyond us. I don’t believe that any more. I believe that, in fact, the mysterious and the spiritual are intimately linked and are intrinsic to our inner human condition.

That may seem odd to say in this deeply technical and scientific world, in this world we experience so materially. But as humans we have achieved the most when we tackled mystery head on, in a fearless and creative way. And we have reached great heights when we were driven by the fire of inner spirit.

Indigenous tribes found god in spirit everywhere because they experienced life in everything around them. When we are disconnected from nature and others, we find god and spirit nowhere. But we fulfill our humanity when we see mystery and the spirit on fire in ourselves.

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