For any text, line, saying, quote, verse, prayer, etc. etc., to have any lasting impact relies upon your Capacity and willingness to contemplate how it relates to you and how you can use it.
For any words to become more than just written guidance or inspirational you must act upon them. how you do this personal and relevant only to you, there is no prescriptive way to achieve the lived meaning of a written way.
The next piece of work you read that touches you, consider its practical application in your current day-to-day life, (there is no other), and then do it. Otherwise, it will remain an inspiring read only and its effects will diminish the further away from the moment of its reading you become.
Your ‘doing’ is the quickest way to increase your capacity for higher order thinking and your ‘doing’ may simply involve re-thinking about the message in the text or allowing a space in your mind where it can keep re-occurring to you as your day progresses. Doing does not necessarily mean a physically visible action, mind work is where it all happens, so see your interactions and experiences of the day as opportunities to consider the material you read, that is its application.
If today I will focus on putting a Spirit based response first, then my meetings and experiences will be the opportunities to do this – because that is what I will make them, not because that is what they are or ‘sent’ to me.
Many people believe that it is God who changes them or sends certain people or experiences into our life, the problem with this line of thought is that it keeps us impotent in our relationship with Spirit, ie, ‘it’s not up to me, it’s up to God or Spirit to ‘do’ the work.
It is up to us. If we want an experience of God, then we need to make it. Read and study the material which opens the doorways in our mind and then actively walk through. No-one or nothing is going to, or can, transform us, it is all down to us to make the decision to do it – the walk back to God with our own Spirit as the guide.
Wanting an experience with god is not enough to achieve it, asking how I can do this more productive than praying for it or demanding it from external institutions such as churches and religions – they can’t give you the experience – only you can.
Ask yourself: how can I be more in sync, or closer aligned, with my Spiritual self today? This is more helpful to your spiritual advancement due to it indicating a willingness, a shift from – ‘here I am God, do with me what you will’ to – ‘how can I learn of you more today?’
The asking, itself, a form of mental action.
If you can’t reach the God inside of you, then don’t expect any church or religious experience to do it for you, how can they give you what you won’t accept for yourself. And by the way, you can feel your spiritual self anytime and anyplace with anyone – no special circumstances needed.
Make your need for Spirit in your life a daily occurrence, just like your morning coffee J
