THE GREATER THE REALITY,
THE MORE DIFFICULT TO GRASP
To grasp: to fully comprehend.
Reality: the state of actual existence as experienced.
To comprehend: to understand.
Reality is discovered at different levels of consciousness. A dream is real. Awakening is more real.
The more awakened we are to an experience, the more meaningful the experience becomes. The more meaningful the experience, the more difficult to reduce to words.
The more difficult to reduce to words, the more difficult to readily carry in ordinary experience.
Experiences of great meaning must regularly be consciously revisited, remembered, in order to make them more easily accessible.
We must reduce a meaningful experience to feelings that are not dependent on words. The feeling must become part of us, recalled without effort.
The most meaningful experiences, irreducible to words, cannot be fully shared.
Any two or more people who share the same meaningful experience, whether simultaneously or not, know each other through indirect exchange of words, or even simply from presence with one another. This is true brotherhood.
Brotherhood: feeling of kinship and closeness, holding in common a knowing shared without words directly describing the shared knowing which is not possible.
A sense of spiritual family is the essence of true spiritual experience. A physical family sharing spiritual experience is an eternal family. Bodily death does not separate those of common spiritual experience, known or unknown.
Spiritual experience may occur and slip into the unconscious mind due to irreducibility to words. Even in the unconscious mind it remains eternally real recognized through the accompanying deep feeling which will occasionally rise to consciousness.
True spiritual experience when carried in the unconscious mind is constantly in the service of the experiencer even when not consciously recognized.
True spiritual experience takes root in the soul and cannot be removed by any force. It is eternal. As with all living things that take root in fertile soil, true spiritual experience grows and flowers perennially sharing fruit to eat and shelter from sun and storm.
True spiritual experience is seldom found through pursuit, but comes of its own volition to the dedicated seeker who waits without pursuit, patient in Wu in
A true seeker has infinite patience, and cannot be dissuaded, content and confident in his/her waiting. We wait in still silence, perhaps with a smile.
We are great in number without knowing how great. The one who finds shares in action, caring little for words. Action expresses in love.
Love brings life and truth, and carries true spiritual experience to other waiting seekers through the surprise of spontaneous and powerful events.
The one who loves opens doors to the Spirit, and smiles in greatest contentment which cannot be told, but can be felt with great power.
We are family, sharing love. We know no fear, no anxiety, and are learning self-love.
This dance of fulfillment is eternal, and always new. The dance teaches us how to dance when we surrender to its rhythm. There is no greater pleasure.
Dance on, my friends and family — and smile, even laughing out loud. This is true joy we share. This joy displaces all discomfort.
We are together, never alone. We have learned to grasp with understanding, and never to grip. We grasp with open hands and minds — and we smile.
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(This is spontaneous, published at 4:00 AM, without editorial proofread, trusting your forgiving nature.)
