And, because of Life being what it is, being on the spiritual path is an interesting challenge at times as it does set one at odds with the message the Universe sometimes is trying so very hard to pound through our thickened skull.

Specifically, when one is 'supposed to be spiritual', everything inside one wants one to just lash out at the universe, or whatever or whoever is nearby. The person doesn't want what is happening to be happening, but it is.

Sometimes this doesn't make sense. In fact it is very nonsensical at times. Life doesn't work the way one wants it to work. It doesn't come together, and then things are, or anything is, hated for that lack of projected outcome. Everything is a resistance to what it is. Life.

It's all a matter of not being with the moment that is in our existence right now.

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I recall reading the editorial preamble in a very spiritually-focused magazine. The female editor was sharing with a co-worker how she was experiencing a particularly difficult Life situation she was currently finding herself in. She wrote that she was really giving herself a hard time because she was upset for so long and having a hard time even stopping the tears when she was sharing this with her co-worker.

Her co-worker asked her why she was being so hard on herself and she replied to him, paraphrasing, "I can't stop myself from running away all the time and breaking down and crying about this event that I'm having trouble handling, and I'm the editor of a major magazine on spirituality!"

Her co-worker rhetorically responded, paraphrasing, "I thought the whole point of spirituality was not that you run away...but how quickly you return?"
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And therein lays the rub with one purporting to be spiritual. If one is spiritual, they aren't doing what is presently being done to them. They aren't lashing out, as that is hurtful. They aren't raging, as that is harmful to the Self.

They aren't blaming or criticizing or condemning, all of which become second nature to most of us at times of Life not meeting our needs.

But, again, they're all very unspiritual outcomes, which must only be coming from a space that is outside the spiritual realm inside the person touting his/her spirituality.

If a person who believes that she/he is spiritual wants to really get down to brass tacks with all this stuff about spirituality, it can get pretty intense once the dross is separated from the substance.

You see, even writing words is using the mind. It's writing from what's in the mind, which essentially is memory. It's using what is in thought, and mind, and memory to create something in the present.

Yet, it's all still old. It's something created using the mind. It's a new duplicate of sorts. That goes against everything that is supposed to define one as being a new and original spiritual being.

So how does one balance the need for the practical, like writing, with the need for the spiritual, like practicing honoring the spirit inside one - which is also in each of us? Well, it begins with personal practices that are personal to that person who has chosen to be spiritual.

Meditation, reading good books, watchfulness, conscious effort. All of these honor the spirit inside of each of us if we use them as meant.

But, writing something, in essence, is not using spirit. It's using the mind. So even doing something like writing this blog article would, and could, and should be considered to be quite un-spiritual. Essentially.

So, what can be done about this?

Well, one can justify that sharing a writing such as this is necessary so as to plant the seed in others as to what is along the spiritual path, and what is necessary to traverse to that end. In this case, small steps are necessary. Small steps that lead forward and further along the path, to the enrichment that is necessary for all of us and to the enlightenment that few seek before they die.

Or, in reality this can be made easier when one is sharing the words and the text from a place of sharing for others' benefit, not just from a perspective of allowing the mind to exercise itself once again via the placement of re-configured and re-hashed words on the digital table of a blog.

But, there is a conundrum that has to be gotten past. There is a sharing to be had from all of us. There is a part inside of each of us that is all the same and makes us all one and is similar to the Everything, which is the Universe. If this sharing can start from this place then the usage of the mind is of benefit, in a larger sense.

That is what I have to hold dear to with this blog entry. I have to realize that my sharing to you today is of benefit to only a few of you who read this digital e-rag. Why? Because the writing is coming from a place inside of me that is generated from a place of no-mind. And that is how and why it is written with the intent of truthful sharing and helpfulness.

Once understood, the usage of the written word can be so powerful and enlightening and the words that are shared from a place of higher truth are very easy to read and understand, or they're not, depending upon who is doing the reading, comprehending, and being triggered on a higher level.

So where does all this lead? Well, from personal example, to more of a cathartic release for me, the writer. That is, a sharing of my mind via these words and an undercoating of spirit beneath the visual text. It's what I strive to do with each writing.

I don't want to use just words. You can read those anywhere. I want to share what is genuine and most may not yet know about. I want to share what can genuinely help you understand that there is a life beyond the one seen with the naked eye and with the untrained senses.

This is all new to me too. There have been billions before me, yet very few who saw what was necessary. And for most of those who did experience that seeing, we now only have their words to read and learn from. But oh what words they are. Eckhart. Schopenhauer. Jung. Krishnamurti. Osho. Howard.

They're all sharing about and relaying from the same basic place inside of each of us. The place we all share. The place where truth, and honesty, and genuineness, and love come from. It's in every one of us, but we just don't know it because the mind gets in the way of the knowing.

So although an exercise such as this cohesive binding of text via this blog writing is good for most, it also strengthens the mind if seen for more than what it first appears to be. That is, a simple tool to hopefully impart information that is timeless and yet truthful to humans.

There is a place of knowing inside of each of us that can be shared. It doesn't have to occur just via words. It can be shared by how we are in the world. By how we behave and how we interrelate with our world. It is a place of beauty and Oneness and Spirit and Light.

I know, it all sounds pretty weird to most, but that doesn't take away the fact that it is there. And if you were able to allow yourself to become so very still, you too would know it without a doubt. And without needing to read anything.

And, again, that is what I hope to help via the words on this blog and the sharing that is here for you to read from and hopefully use as a catalyst to a higher plane of consciousness.

It's not complicated; in fact it's the reverse. But, the mind just wants us to believe that this is something that needs to be understood and reasoned with and learned and all that intellectual stuff and mumbo-jumbo. No.

It's a simple knowing that there is a place inside that goes beyond reading, and language.

It's in all of us and more importantly, it goes beyond the written word.

It's IN all of us.

Whether you believe it or not, that's a fact. But, you don't really have to believe anyway, as that doesn't take away the fact that it's been there since your birth and is your birthright as a human being.

Or should I say: a human, being?

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'

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