Me: Based upon your life experience, what would
you say is the most important advice you would give someone about living a
meaningful life.
You: I like how you get right to it…..but my
answer depends upon how you define "meaningful". The Human vocabulary is very limiting when it
comes to where this conversation is going.
Me: Ok, what I mean is making a positive
contribution to all that is, friends, family, the Earth and all living things.
You: Well, what about Spirit?
Don't you want to contribute to spirit?
Me: Wait, wait……… isn't spirit all knowing? How could I contribute to spirit?
You: let's make sure we are on the same page about
what spirit is. Define what Spirit is
for you?
Me: It's the intelligence and energy behind all
that is. It's the impulse to grow, evolve and progress in a sustainable way. That’s what it means to me anyway, but I
guess there is no real way of actually knowing what it is.
You: Have you ever felt it?
Me: Yeah, every once in a while I can feel it,
sometimes in the form of a thought, sometimes in the form of a palpable feeling
in my body.
You: How do you know
it's spirit? Maybe it's just your
intuition or gut.
Me: I think my intuition is spirit. When I am open to it, that impulse to grow,
evolve and progress comes through with wisdom or creativity that I need to
learn from or act from so that I am moving in the right direction.
You: How do you know what the right direction
is? And what do you mean when you are
open to it? Do you choose when to be
open to it?
Me: I thought I was going to be asking the
questions today!!! Anyway, for me, I can
discern the right direction based on how it feels in my heart. I have to be sure that I don't let my
intellect creep in. As for choosing to
be open to it, apparently I do make a choice when to be open.
You: So, if spirit is all knowing, why would you
not choose to be open to it more often?
Seems to me that would be the easiest way to live your life aligned with
your goal of a meaningful life.
Me: I don't know.
I am much more deliberate about being open to it now that I have ever
been before though.
You: It's not enough!!! If you goal is to make a positive
contribution to all that is, friends, family, the Earth and all living things,
you should spend the vast majority of your time listening to Spirit. And by the way that is how you contribute to
Spirit as well. You know those times
when you listen to Spirit and you feel empowered and just the right wisdom or
creativity required at that moment comes to you? That is you contributing to Spirit.
Me: Not sure I'm following you on how that
contributes to Spirit. What do you mean?
You: Well, Spirit is all knowing, it is all the
wisdom, creativity, intelligence, energy, anything that is necessary for existence. But knowing all of that is one thing,
experiencing it in manifestation is a totally different thing, so when you tap
in to Spirit, and act upon it, you experience what Spirit is as a physical
manifestation. Think about it, when you
are tapped into Spirit and act upon it, what problems do you have.
Me: Nothing, it's awesome!! Like nothing I have ever felt!!!
You: So why would you not spend more time in that
state?
Me: Ok, Ok, I get it, I should be more deliberate
in living from Spirit, but I want to talk more about Spirit. Everyone has access to Spirit right?
You: Access is not a good word to use with
Spirit. It makes it sound like its
something separate from you or anyone else for that matter. Spirit is you, it's closer than your breath
and nearer than your beating heart. It's
the essence of you in the physical world….You are in this world but not of
it!!!
Me: I can get grasp that, but if that’s the case,
why are there so many fucked up things in the world. If we are all spirit, why are we killing each
other, many times in the name of God?
Why is there disease, poverty, strife and separation in so much of the
human population?
You: Why indeed?
You touched on it earlier. Too
many people let there intellect drive their actions. Humans believe the most absurd things and
discount the most evident truths because they rarely allow spirit to provide
them direction. But lets keep our
conversation focused on you. You need to
be much more deliberate in living from Spirit.
You need to begin to remove those things that do not allow you to be
tapped in to spirit from your daily activities.
This is how you will contribute the most to all that there is. No other way.
To Be Continued
