Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.
By Peter Matthiessen
Meditation slows us down long enough to get a glimpse of that mystery. What lies within us waits patiently to be uncovered. As we grow in body, mind and spirit those mysteries begin to appear.
After many years of being that "child" that Peter Mattiessen references I began my journey to spiritual awakening. Often times the journey requires for me to have my ego be banished to the dark corners...I'm still not what purpose it serves...beyond some survival instinct in the jungle of the world in which I live, but somedays I'd like to banish it forever. Ego, or Easy God Out as one spritiual discipline calls it, no longer serves me. But my spirit is a fledgling...tottering around like a small child...the journey is good today. And I feel like I've just begun!
Peace and blessings!
