For the Sake of the Whole (Quote of the Week)
Most seekers are interested in enlightenment only for their own sake, only for their own personal liberation. Indeed, when we begin the spiritual life, the most important thing to us is our own happiness, our own personal experience of expanded states of consciousness, our own enlightenment. But there comes a time when some of us begin to recognize that spiritual experience is not only for our own welfare. Because we have gone deeply into the spiritual experience, we have discovered something sacred. It is the recognition of an obligation, an obligation that literally commands us to cease to live for ourselves alone, but instead to live for the sake of the whole. In that obligation, it becomes apparent that this life is not our own in any personal sense, and that true liberation can be found only when this life is lived not for our own happiness but in the service of a cause that is always greater than ourselves.
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Who does not return cannot be realized.
Funny how the primary goal of many spiritual aspirants is enlightenment. Is graduating from an institution the primary objective of education – or is it a more valuable investment to share one’s wealth of knowledge (i.e., to disseminate our desiderations). This creates equity – and equity alone affords an equal opportunity for all (what you put in is what you get out).
Hi Trish, re: “Funny how the primary goal of many spiritual aspirants is enlightenment.”
There seems to be those two paths of spirituality. Aspiring to attain enlightenment is one, maybe the more traditional way of practicing Buddhism. In contrast, I think Evolutionary Enlightenment is a more comprehensive way of being spiritual in that it’s not so much directed toward personal enlightenment but of embracing a recognition of the interconnectivity of each human being and the Creation. Living in this spirit means we are connected in a web personally, interpersonally and planetarily. To be committed to promoting the health and well-being of this Web of Being is the self-assumed task of holistically spiritually enlightened people.
Dear Frank,
This “Web of Being” you are talking about, do you mean your Being is a Spider?:)?:)?:)
OK Aliya, re: “This “Web of Being” you are talking about, do you mean your Being is a Spider?:)?:)?:)”
I respond though I have misgivings that our corresponding is pointless as it seems to be one-sided in that you seem only interested in defending yourself and your doctrinal viewpoints rather than making any attmepts at honest dialogue or considering other viewpoints seriously.
I’m disturbed at your response because it seems to indicate a disdain for the Web of Being which is a term used by spiritually conscious people use to speak of the connectivity humanity shares and inhabits. Now with the Internet it is literally true. Are you being cute, coy or simply clueless? I hope you were only jesting.
Be more careful of your tip-of-your-tongue reflex responses that seem unworthy of serious answers.
Dear Frank,
When you use “spiritual terms” such as “Web of Being”, “connectivity humanity shares and inhabits” you must be more aware as you claim to be a “spiritually conscious person” (whatever that “spiritual consciousness” may mean for you).
Only when start you talking out of your meditativeness and not out of your superficial mind understanding, such non sensical mere words use would not be possible.
The Ultimate Being you try to talk about can in no way be imprisoned in any terminology or attempts for categorizations you are so fond of, neither can it be reduced to some animalistic behaviour (webs creating), nor can it be reduced to electronic sophisticated terminology (Internet, connectivity).
The Ultimate Being or call it God, or cal it Tao, or Brahman, can be seen or better say it experienced by you only if you tear apart the veil of your delusional mind and look at reality directly and totally, with the wholeness of your Being.
The last New Dimensions radio program featured a discussion of “The Power of Collective Wisdom” which I recommend to you who may also find it most worthy of attn:
WISDOM FOR A GLOBAL TRIBE with Alan Briskin
New Dimensions radio Program #3342 – 1 Hour – Listen Now!
Alan Briskin is a pioneer in the field of organizational learning and cofounder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative. He is co-author of The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly (Berrett-Koehler 2009), winner of the 2010 Nautilus Book Award in Conscious Business and Leadership.
Topics explored in this dialogue:
*How you can use both science and mystery in the service of wisdom
*What practices your group can use to create the conditions for wisdom to arise
*Why disagreement within a group can be the catalyst for deeper wisdom
*How you can discern the impact of your decisions on generations to come
*Why community is important in these times
Check this book out, it’s like a road map of Collective Thinking. Excellent!
Aloha,
Yes, “collective thinking”, “collective wisdom”!
Collectivity seems to be the dream land for those cowards who are scared to death to stand alone, authentic and free, utterly themselves.
Being in the crowd is so cozy, so comforting you. Your individual responsibility is such a burden, let the crowd be responsible for it.
And probably you all have noticed that in times of wars and revolutions bloody acts have been done by the easily manipulated overwhelmed crowd, such acts that a single person would have been ashamed to do alone.
Dear Andrew, Dear EnlightenNext –
Thank you so much for the leadership and visionary publication that you have brought to the world in such a fine way for so long. Everybody in Conscious Evolution has been influenced by your work and vision — certainly including me.
I think it was 2004, when you published that brilliant yellow-cover issue on “Collective Consciousness” with the Beatles doing “Come Together”. I bought FOUR copies of that issue, and I still I got one or two perfect versions laying around here.
For me — out here in California — it has seemed very clear that spirituality and enlightenment involves US — big-time. This old model of gazing at one’s navel in private — I think it’s sclerotic. We got hundreds, thousands of quotes — that tell us “We are One”. There is no spirituality apart from human interconnection. “No man is an island.” “Ask not for whom the bell tolls.”
“In that obligation, it becomes apparent that this life is not our own in any personal sense, and that true liberation can be found only when this life is lived not for our own happiness but in the service of a cause that is always greater than ourselves.”
We are One Body, One Communion. Ain’t no getting there in private. We are connected, we are together, we are community, we are communion. Go team…
- Bruce Schuman
Santa Barbara
There is a saying in Hindi “jyot se jyot jalate chalo” which means, when one soul is lit, then it will provide light to another soul…and the process keeps going and repeating itself, until the glow spreads across.
“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself, but the ends you serve that are for all in common will take you in to eternity”. ~ Marcus Garvey
” the search for spiritual enlightenment is not selfish, before the self which started the seach gets lost in the enlightenment”
typo, pls read as “because” instead as “before”
“Because we have gone deeply into the spiritual experience, we have discovered something sacred. It is the recognition of an obligation.”
“Something sacred” can never be “an obligation.” When one has really gone deep into the real spiritual experience, the sacred one discovers and connects to is his inner most core being, his real nature and inner center, which is also the center of the Absolute Being, of all the Universe and much more…
It is the most sacred ever encountering and has nothing to do with any of the mind categorizations, because it defies all categorizations, all dualities such as obligations, services, happiness, the Whole opposite to the Personal, and so on and so forth. To go into the sacred can only be done via transcending the mind and its limited definitions and conditioned models of thinking, by reaching in the state of the No – mind, free, infinite and eternal. The state of absolute Freedom, Love, Truth, Bliss, or call it God, Tao, Shunyata…
“In that obligation, it becomes apparent that this life is not our own in any personal sense, and that true liberation can be found only when this life is lived not for our own happiness but in the service of a cause that is always greater than ourselves.”
Even though it declares to be an evolutionary call, I wonder for the reason it sounds so traditional to me? In all the past organized religions you have been taught from your very childhood that you were born out of a sin (Adam and Eve) and you have been unworthy and mistaken unless you did not submit yourself to do-gooders to take you away from your sinning and evil nature. All the vested interests have always taught you that you were not worthy as to live your own life, as to grow up and flourish your own seeds of potentials Existence has created you with; but that your life has been created only to serve other people’s interests, who are so smart to have set in front of you a cause that is always greater than you.
Here my question comes – How can a cause be more worthy than a living being, God Child? Have not we got enough causes and ideals set in front of us, which harmed us so much – remember that all the bloody wars have always been lead under some “beautiful” cause.
Let us not make enlightenment a cause, an interest or an ideal neither define it as a search for personal happiness. Enlightenment is our very nature of being, which we all we turn back to one beautiful day. We are all Buddhas, sleeping still, still too much overwhelmed by the outer visible world and its beatitudes.
Only when one is totally disillusioned by the outside material world, disappointed by and betrayed by one’s own endless mind desires and projections, will one come back for the search of one’s own center of being, and that is what enlightenment is.
P.S. “I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story.
My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one
and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner,
only that breath breathing Human Being.” – Rumi
zero share
I am beyond every known and unknown dimensions
but within love of no dimension.
Love is my nature,
nature is my love,
love my nature,
you love me.
to be nature is to be with yourself,
to be yourself is to be with oneself,
to be with oneself is to be with myself.
any name ,work,or rest which brings
you peace are name of me only.
name has no meaning,
meaning has no name.
name has no meaning in love.
love is an expression without
expressed
A touch of that energy ends the personal era. True liberation is liberation from personal(comfort of choosing good-bad). Now one is involved with every thing yet detached , which means one is not making ideations out of one’s pain and pleasure. The intensity of that energy lets one operate with total responsibility, which is not imposed but manifests as fun, play.
Enlightenment is not about overwhelming bliss nor is it a state of endless joy nor any compassion-drenched or self-centered spiritual experience. It is simply the stage of permanent non-duality. In this stage NOTHING in earth is wrong, NOTHING on earth is good. All simply IS! Fullstop.
There certainly are states of endless and/or universal love or deep experiences of the empty ground of all being. These “highs” come and few days or weeks later they disappear again. In contrast to those temporary states a fully awakened human being is clear about the fact that there is nobody who could “have” a life. So there certainly is no life to be mis-used in any way. Nor for his/her own sake nor for the sake of the whole.
So many teachers and gurus blather about enlightenment by pointing towards communion and compassion and meditation. Why is there no such thing like an international performance ranking for enlightenment gurus? E.g. a review of what has happened to 100 devoties in the last 10 years and how many of those 100 followers reached the state enlightenment. I am afraid I know the answer: There are no heroes and masters of enlightenment who really have the guts to talk honestly about the bloody, sweaty, choking and excruciating process that is necessary to awaken. Because the meassage is too ugly.
Though it’s a shoking obvious: If you really want to get rid of your grand self-delusion (how lovely you are, how sophisticated you are, etc.) you will have to peel yourself like an onion – skin by skin. The focus of this year-long struggle is clear: It is only about yourself because you are the onion you are peeling. This effort is everything but funny! Here we got the contradiction: There are no good news for the seekers. As a guru you better point to the outer world.
Joe M.
You’re accurate to point out the expectation of blissfulness is a perhaps naive and that even to attain Enlightenment is maybe too much to expect of most unless so advanced in consciousness.
I believe meditation can be instrumental in developing higher consciousness not in an automatic way (“I’ll develop higher consciousness because I meditate) but more about practicing a kind of calm patient mind that prepares for the reception of higher consciousness. I believe science shows us how practicing meditation affects areas of the brain involved in peacefulness physiologically.
Aloha, namaste!
Yes, dear Joe, peeling off the skins of the onion can be really funny. Especially when those onion skins are not real, are not part of your real nature, your inner being.
Those onion skins are man made, your own delusional mind creation. So to peel them off it is enough just to realise they are false, illusiory. In this same moment of understanding you are free of all the onions in the world.
perhaps andrew cohen would like to respond to your points
I agree that ultimately the purpose of enlightenment should be about service to others.
But I believe it’s our own personal suffering that pushes us to try to free ourselves first. We have to experience a certain level of personal enlightenment before we can really be an inpriration to anyone else.
Many Guru’s and Spiritual leaders are just as flawed as the next person, and all to often hypocritical.
The only enlightenment possible is the realization that WE ARE EXISTENCE ITSELF. And so is everything. We need to break down barriers of perception, and towards that end terms such as spirituality should be the first to go. There are not two states, spirit and matter–there is only Existence coming into knowledge of Itself.
I do not believe that our understanding of Existence is particularly aided by meditation; rather, it’s aided by knowledge. Achieving knowledge is the necessary inner work, i.e., allowing the brain to make deeper and wider connections in order to yield realizations. People need to start thinking in terms of Matter’s development through time–a process prosaically referred to as evolution.
Listen to Buffy Saint Marie’s wonderful rendition of Leonard Cohen’s song, Magic is Alive, God is Afoot. I read it as: Matter is Alive, God is Afoot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmeroR20lc
Also, please read Steven Kaufman’s, Unified Reality Theory: the Evolution of Existence into Experience (not for the faint of heart.) This book will be the definitive classic on the nature of reality for the next fifty years.
Dear Caroline,
You say: “I do not believe that our understanding of Existence is particularly aided by meditation”.
And do you know what meditation is, Caroline?
And will “thinking about matter and time” ever help you to understand what Existence is? At the most thinking can take you away from your own existentiality, your inner Being by projecting you over things around. And that is all thinking can do for you – to make you even more unaware about yourself.
While meditation is your being aware, conscious, alert, watchful, so that nothing can take you away from your center of being.
Aliya,
You say: And will “thinking about matter and time” ever help you to understand what Existence is? At the most thinking can take you away from your own existentiality, your inner Being by projecting you over things around. And that is all thinking can do for you – to make you even more unaware about yourself.
In your desire to see all thinking as merely the negative products of Ego, you misunderstand what thinking actually is. Thinking is the act of making connections, within and without. These connections do not come ready-made. It’s a building process. Yes, thinking about matter and time definitely helps us to understand what Existence is.
Dear Caroline,
Thinking can never make any real connections, as thinking itself is just thinking, not reality.
Real connections can only be made by sharing your love. Love is what unite the reality and love is its very fabrics.
But to share love with others you first have to have it. Otherwise how can you share something you do not have at the first place? But love has to start from your centre – and you are the closest person to it – only then can it go on spreading. It is like you throw a stone into a silent lake and the ripples arise. First they arise just around the stone, and then they go on spreading to the far-away shores. This is the way love arises.
Let love arise! But you will be the first beneficiary and then others… only then others! That’s why Jesus says ’Love your enemy as you love yourself’… but the first love is love for oneself.
But a misunderstanding has happened: people think to love oneself is selfish. It is not. To love oneself is the foundation of all altruistic love. Not to love oneself is dangerous; then you will never be able to love anybody. You will use people but you will never love them; you will exploit people but you will never befriend them.
And that’s what people are doing: exploiting each other, using the other as a means, and that is ugly. To use any person as a means is ugly, is irreligious, is violent, is a sin, because each person is an end unto himself; nobody should be used as a means. That is the meaning of befriending the whole existence….(with excerpts from Osho talks)
Ring the bell!! Now you’re talking, sweetheart!
When I talk or Osho talks or Budddha talks or Lao Tsu talks, where is the difference?
It is all the same experiencing of the enlightened being. Some words may differ in their forms, but it is all the same meaning.
When I read Osho talks, or Buddha, or Lao Tsu teachings, or Jesus sayings, it is as I read myself. It is what enlightenment is – to connect to your innermost center of the Ultimate Being.
Out of my deep reverense and love to the enlightened masters like Osho, Buddha, Jesus, I will always give preferense to their words as examples.
But your reaction, Caroline, confirms that for people, imprisoned in their narrow mind world of self delusions and false projectios of the ego, who ever of the precious enlightened beings speaks, it will create fear and ferocious rejection (not “a ferocious yes”), because the masters’ beautiful words will threaten the illusory small selfish world of such people to collapse.
For such mind identified people a “collective next evolutionnary enlightenment” out of the reach of the enlightened masters is much more appealing, because it is safer and comforting their enormous egos.
But is there enlightenment with an ego?
Hi again Caroline, re: “I do not believe that our understanding of Existence is particularly aided by meditation; rather, it’s aided by knowledge.”
You speak with such certitude about meditation but I’d be more cautious since scientists involved in researching meditation are finding those who have been practicing it affect the areas of the brain which foster peaceableness. I submit that if there were a universal event where all humanity sat for a duration in meditation there would be peace on earth at least for the duration of the meditating event. Mamy say that meditation is not for them, even very bright people, but it’s like saying democracy doesn’t work without being able to evaluate that assertion without any true example.
You personally are experiencing what you say is true. That’s cool. Your assertion that knowledge is key to enlightenment but I think you are dismissing what seems to be true more and more that a balance of the mind and the spirit makes for more holistic humans.
Regards, aloha,
Frank,
I only said that I do not believe that our understanding of Existence is particularly aided by meditation–not that meditation doesn’t clearly have its uses. Mahalo for your many balanced perspectives.
An interesting dialogue :
Q : Why is it necessary for the mind to die?
A : The mind must die, there is no other way to realize the Self. Some people say that complete equanimity of mind is Self-Realization, but this is not true. This is only a stage one passes through on the way to Self-Realization. Other people say that seeing the Self or God everywhere is Self-Realization, but this is not true either. To see the Self everywhere there must be an “I” who sees, and while that “I” exists the mind will also exist. The jnani does not see anything because the seeing entity in him has died. In the Self, there is no seeing, only being. When the mind still exists one can reach a stage where one can see the whole world as a manifestation of the Self, but when the mind dies, there is no one who sees and no world to be seen.
If you have a mind then the earth, the sky, and the stars will exist, and you will be able to see them. When the mind dies there will be no earth, no sky, no stars, and no world. The world of objects, names, and forms is only the mind, and when the mind dies, the world dies with it. Only the Self then remains.
Seeing everything as the Self gives the impression that the Self is equally distributed everywhere. This is also an idea in the mind. When the mind finally dies you realize that there is no distribution and no everywhere.
Hello Ramesh, re: Why is it necessary for the mind to die?
May I submit that it IS necessary for the mind to die but that gives birth to a MIND which has gained higher conciousness in the process of being reborn, Awakened.
Most I believe are unconcerned about being Awake or remaining unawakened in the getting and spending nitty gritty real world. Yet for some there’s a calling or maturing which impels them to becoming Awakened, which as I see it means becoming truly committed to leading a life consonant with spiritual values propounded by the Perennial Wisdom and the Golden Rule rather than a less conscious or committed spiritual way of life.
” i find no difference between the pure mind and the soul or being or god “
FEMININE
Is emotional intelligence and nature of right
brain.
F = FAIR
E = EMOTIONAL
M = MOTHER
I = INSPIRATION
NINE = Magical number represents universal wisdom ,embrace principle of forgiveness,compassion and vibrations of cosmic love, teach us how to accept each other,
and bridge to many qualities like creativity,
imagination,devotion,totality,generosity,
dedication etc…….
MASCULINE
Is logical intelligence and nature of left
brain.
M = MATTER
A = ANALYSIS
S = SCIENCE
C = CLEAR
U = UNDERSTANDING
LINE = TIME JOINS TWO POINTS PAST AND FUTURE
IT also represents perfection,adventure,science, information,
worship of work , objective technology, body
etc……
Every human has to work with both the brains
together through mind which is bridge between
subjective and objective , soul and body .
woman because of gender has a natural inclination towards right brain which is feminine in nature represents soul.
man because of gender has a natural inclination towards left brain which is masculine in nature represents body.
BALANCE BETWEEN THE TWO WILL BE THE HUMANITY
BEYOND GENDER.
left hand governed by right brain represents
soul.
right hand governed by left brain represents
body.
fold them together for prayer to experience
oneness that is present and taste of god.
that is namaste (eastern greeting gesture )
to bow to god in you.
HAPPINESS IS PRAYER AND THANKS TO GOD.
GOODNESS IS GOD . ONE O REPRESENTS SOUL OTHER BODY AND UNION OF TWO O BRINGS GOD.
Mind is the bridge between right and left
brains , soul and body , subjective and
objective .
fill the gap
yoga is a science to fill this gap between
soul and body to become mirror to zero.
meditation is a science to fill this gap between
past and future to experience the present.
dance is a science to fill this gap between
nonaction and action to feel oneness.
enchanting is a science to fill this gap between
silence and sound for eternal music.
se+ is science to fill this gap between feminine
and masculine to go beyond duality.
all these sciences are like detergent to clean the
garments like learning and remove from the garments
like unlearning to wear the garment.
wear the garment of happiness
from mind to no mind
ENLIGHTENMENT IN A TRICE
LEARN TO UNLEARN FOR SPACE
WORSHIP OF WORK FOR PACE
MIND TO NO MIND FOR SURFACE
YOU TO YOURSELF FOR ONE’S FACE
ONE TO KNOW ONE FOR GRACE
TOUCH ONE TO EVERYONE FOR SOLACE
SHOWER HAPPINESS FOR HUMAN RACE
SING NEW LIFE FOR LIFE’S ACE
LIVE NOW FOR GOD’S PLACE
etenity is dancing on eternity like football.
everything has a eternal space inside and outside
like football.
foot has two o, one o represents right leg controlled
by.left brain, logical intelligence , time,body, the
known dimension and other o represents left leg
controlled by right brain , emotional intelligence,
space ,soul, the unknown dimension.
who enjoys the match most ?
one may say spectators who come in large numbers
with alliance to one of the teams but go through the
joy and sorrow alongwith the win and lose of the.
preferred team.spectators are like different informations
on any subjects.
players know the rules of game and go through the whole
field is like knowledge which is refinement of informations.
in the match you play with both the legs while playing you
forget the duality of body and soul , dance and dancer
become one .
good player performs irrespective of the results that is
wisdom.
referee is blissfulness who witness the match ,enjoys it
the most remaining neither attached nor detached at the
same time.
this balanced ignorance could be termed as blissfulness.
The Mind Dialogue continues :
Q : How is one to make the mind die?
A : The mind can never eliminate itself without the grace of the Self. The mind is afraid of its own death; it will not do anything to endanger its own existence. It is like the theif who poses as a policement in order to catch himself because he ultimately wants to escape. SImilarly with the mind. The mind will engage in sadhana, thinking it wants to destroy itself, but as soon as the mind starts to sink into the Heart, a great fear arises which prevents the mind from completely subsiding. This fear is part of the mind’s self-defense mechanism, and you will never overcome it by effort alone. It is because of this that you need the grace of the Guru. When you concentrate on the name and form of the Guru, or try to be without thoughts, the grace of the Guru calms the mind and helps it to overcome the fear which would otherwise prevent it from completely subsiding.
Hello Ramesh, re: ” The mind is afraid of its own death; it will not do anything to endanger its own existence.”
I wonder what you would say re: the many drug addicts who attempt with their addiction to be seeming to obliterate thinking and seem to be intent on only escape from their minds and very existence?
Of course to have a Guru in their lives may help in any kind of rehabilitation but that seems not an option for those too zonked to seek help.
Any comments?
that will be temporary cessation of mental activities, think we are talking about the death or total annihilation of the “I” thought or the “ego” which has got identified with the body
I have to say that this post seems to me a little off the mark, or at least not clearly expressed. Certainly there is a selfish motive in most people when they begin the spiritual journey. After all, the spiritual path is essentially individual, regardless of what it may eventually evolve into. But if we are sincere in our effort to find and express the highest consciousness, by whatever name we call it, then eventually that selfishness disappears by the very nature of the work, by the increasing replacement of the old human personality by the Divine personality behind it (as some of these comments say in different words.) And whatever collective work, whatever view of the whole, whatever broader expression of that Divine personality that we have, emerges naturally from this inner development.
On the other hand, if there is a premature or forced outward direction of our energies, if there is a too early seeking after the whole, of some external cause greater than the individual, then these merely become another expression of the limited personality, of an individual or collective ego, cloaked in the guise of a spiritual purpose, or the collective good viewed from some lower perspective. We simply trade the egoism of an individual spiritual experience for the egoism of some larger cause, some larger whole.
Inevitably in our inner development, our understanding of the whole, our experience of the whole, and our ability to express it on any level changes and grows as we grow. In my experience, the real problem on any level is not whether we have any sense of altruism, any sense of doing something for the greater good. It is rather personal rigidity: the unwillingness to let go of our limited views, our traditions, our past ways of looking at things in order to move on, to develop. It our belief that we know the truth, rather than knowing we are always merely expressing some limited aspect of a greater truth. It is saying we want to grow, and at the same time refusing to do so.
Hello John, re: egotism and higher consciousness
I agree that egotism is a serious deterrent in attaining higher consciousness for any sincerely attempting to become more spiritual. If not interested in that objective it would appear the effort is only an intellectual and egoistic exercise.
Would you agree that even with erroneous approaches in attempting to become more enlightened and conscious, the effort can meet with advancement if sincerity is true and the heart becomes purified of egotism? In advancement of truly higher consciousness, falseness of attitudes fall away that should become intolerable embarrassments. Your thoughts pls.
Absolutely. That is exactly what happens. Sincerity, that is spiritual sincerity, which means listening to the inner Guide, the Supreme within in as best we can, honestly trying to do what the Divine wants as best we can sense it, regardless of our personal feelings and views, in essence moves our consciousness higher, out of the limited human personality towards a true expression of the Divine personality, as fast as we can tolerate it. It is, you might say, the real shortcut to enlightenment. It also allows that higher energy to express itself through us, to work for the greater good, the entire evolutionary movement, to the greatest extent possible,
In a larger sense, there really are no erroneous approaches, all are just different evolutionary paths pushing us in one way or another towards a higher consciousness. Egoism in any form just puts us on a longer, more difficult one, that’s all.
ego =energy go
ear =energy arrive
gear= god’s ear
people are searching me in
telephone directories,not
knowing to lift the receiver
to hear dial tone which is
I am.