| How do you know if you are on your spiritual path? | | | | heavy bags to my car the other day and a man got |
| What is spiritual growth? Your life is your spiritual path | | | | out of his car and said, "Please let me help you. I don't |
| and if you are wondering whether you are growing | | | | want to see you carrying that heavy load. He took half |
| spiritually, you are. Each second of your life is an | | | | of the bags and helped me load the trunk." I said, |
| opportunity to fulfill your purpose here on earth and no | | | | "Wow, a gentleman," as tears welled up in my eyes. I |
| moment is too insignificant to ignore. As you go | | | | truly needed an act of kindness that morning and I |
| through your day, coming into contact with different | | | | was touched by his action. In return, it encouraged me |
| people, do you take each encounter as an | | | | help someone else later on in the day. |
| opportunity? How would you feel if you had been in a | | | | We don't need a blueprint for our spiritual path or a |
| deserted place and not seen another person for | | | | ruler to measure or spiritual growth because we have |
| weeks or maybe even months? You would be elated | | | | our feelings. When you are on your path and growing |
| to see someone. However in the course of our daily | | | | spiritually, you will know, because you will feel good. |
| activity we overlook those entering an exiting in our | | | | What is all this spiritual growth about anyway, you may |
| lives. Are we so busy thinking about our spiritual | | | | ask; it is about knowing yourself. I know myself, you |
| growth that we are not living it. | | | | might say, I've been with myself all my life. Yes, you |
| Each moment of our lives is a step along our spiritual | | | | have, but you have been with the self that has been |
| path. If you spend your life searching for something | | | | created, more often than not, by your environment, |
| that is all around you the entire time, you will not | | | | you culture and your family and peers, a self that |
| experience the process. It might be that the person | | | | separates us from our true selves. |
| that comes on the elevator with you is someone you | | | | We are intimately connected with a society that |
| have known in another lifetime or on another one of | | | | advocates suffering, struggle, and guilt as normal parts |
| the multi-dimensional lives we are all living. After all, we | | | | of life, thereby creating a culture based on victimization. |
| dream of beings we don't know and accept that | | | | As you experience the growth of the spirit and |
| without question. Perhaps you don't know that person | | | | consciousness, moving from possible reality to possible |
| going up in the same lift as you, but that person is | | | | reality you are finding little bits of yourself about which |
| sharing your space and you have the choice to | | | | you have forgotten along the way and after awhile |
| recognize that person or not. You have the power to | | | | you become whole again. This is the spiritual journey |
| change that person, just by acknowledging them or | | | | of life, somewhat like a scavenger hunt where you get |
| speaking to them. When I have the intention to interact | | | | clues to help you find what you need. Cherish every |
| with someone, kind words come to me. An act of | | | | moment for, in the words of Edmund Spencer, there is |
| kindness can filter into the universe. I was carrying | | | | nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. |