| The Pursuit of TruthFrom the earliest
| |
| | time, there comes a moment of great
|
| times in humanities existence there are
| |
| | revelation and illumination. Sometimes
|
| those who continue to search for ultimate
| |
| | this is a gradual process and often
|
| truth. Why are we here? Who are we? What
| |
| | occurs without our knowledge in the deep
|
| is the meaning of life? Such are the
| |
| | recesses of our soul. Or, maybe it bursts
|
| questions asked by these spiritual
| |
| | forth in an episode of illuminating
|
| explorers the mystics.Now in this present
| |
| | brilliance. However it manifests itself
|
| time the need to answer these questions
| |
| | here is a sense of joy which seems to
|
| looms ever larger as our world explodes
| |
| | lift us out of ourselves.Then follows a
|
| with supercilious information and dubious
| |
| | state of peace and harmony that words are
|
| dialogue. Everyone has an opinion but no
| |
| | barely able to describe, a perception of
|
| one has an answer.We live in a time of
| |
| | power and a personality integration, we
|
| unrest and conviction. Unrest in our
| |
| | become one with the cosmos and ourselves.
|
| pursuit of personal fulfillment and
| |
| | We feel a sense of harmony, peace and a
|
| conviction in the traditional belief
| |
| | release from the historic and genetic
|
| systems handed down from those who came
| |
| | bonds that bind us. We become ourselves,
|
| before us.Which Reality?On the one hand
| |
| | the way we were meant to be. For that
|
| you have those who claim that knowledge
| |
| | moment we are life risen to a higher
|
| is king and that if we study enough or
| |
| | power.This is the point at which most
|
| read enough or think enough the answers
| |
| | people stop. Refreshed by this experience
|
| will surely come. These individuals tend
| |
| | they return to their lives with a new
|
| to believe only what they can see. There
| |
| | perspective and a better understanding of
|
| is nothing outside of the visible
| |
| | themselves and the world around them.
|
| universe or the world in which they live.
| |
| | However, in time, the pressures and
|
| Their faith is based on sets of rules and
| |
| | pursuits of life dim the memory of this
|
| creeds that should never be questioned.On
| |
| | event and eventually it fades into the
|
| the other hand there are those who, with
| |
| | background noise of day to day
|
| a childlike awe, listen to the music of
| |
| | existence.The Path to EnlightenmentThe
|
| their spirit. These are the ones who go
| |
| | mystic is constantly striving to subdue
|
| beyond the veil and welcome the unknown
| |
| | the old nature and replace it with the
|
| and the unknowable into their world.Such
| |
| | new pattern. Having experienced the
|
| are the Mystics, men and women throughout
| |
| | infinite the mystics can not be satisfied
|
| time who seek to glimpse the living
| |
| | with life as they knew it before. This
|
| forces moving through and around human
| |
| | paradox becomes a driving force, a quest
|
| existence. Their faith is based on the
| |
| | if you will, toward a closer union with
|
| exploration of their inner selves and the
| |
| | this nameless reality. They wish to
|
| mysteries they find there.Toward the
| |
| | posses this new found truth and become
|
| DivineThrough the ages many have
| |
| | one with it.The trek toward the light
|
| endeavored to define the role they play
| |
| | leads through what many mystics call the
|
| in the cosmos. Searching within
| |
| | "dark night of the soul". A time of
|
| themselves and studying human nature
| |
| | recurring darkness in the mind and
|
| their explorations have lead to some
| |
| | depression of the spirit that can go on
|
| interesting possibilities. One such way
| |
| | for years. A time of questioning
|
| is a psychological and spiritual journey
| |
| | everything yet never quite finding any
|
| called the Tao or the Mystic Way.It is an
| |
| | answers. The memory of their moment of
|
| adventure that culminates in the
| |
| | enlightenment is the sole force that
|
| condition called identification with the
| |
| | drives them on, but even this eludes
|
| divine ground, cosmic consciousness, self
| |
| | them.Then in the fullness of time a new
|
| actualization, nirvana or spiritual
| |
| | order begins to emerge. The pieces of the
|
| conversion. An illuminating episode which
| |
| | cosmic puzzle begin to fall into place.
|
| may be deep or superficial, sudden or
| |
| | Understanding replaces confusion and with
|
| gradual resulting in the reorientation of
| |
| | it comes a new view of reality.
|
| personality into a new order of being.A
| |
| | Personality changes shape and soon a new
|
| Deeper RealityMany people have followed
| |
| | inner harmony takes root, this time
|
| the Mystic Way and in spite of individual
| |
| | forever. For the rest of their lives the
|
| personalities the same basic processes
| |
| | mystic maintains that sense of peace and
|
| are involved. No matter what the social
| |
| | power that began their quest. This is the
|
| or economic status of the seeker their
| |
| | goal of the Mystic Way.Reaching the
|
| path to enlightenment is always the same.
| |
| | SummitLike that first moment of
|
| Common to all of them is the awareness
| |
| | revelation, no matter if it is sudden or
|
| that life is larger, or deeper, or more
| |
| | slow, the mystic makes the leap into a
|
| mysterious than it appears at first
| |
| | new and permanent pattern of being. Peace
|
| glance. That's how it begins.It begins
| |
| | and inner harmony lead to new and
|
| with an innate knowledge that normal life
| |
| | exciting insights into themselves. Their
|
| is wrong, out of step with reality. That
| |
| | vision is so vast that perspective does
|
| there exists a deeper reality than the
| |
| | not allow them to see themselves as
|
| one of which we are normally aware, an
| |
| | anything but a poor representative of
|
| insight into something that does not
| |
| | something much greater than themselves.
|
| appear on the surface. A mysterious
| |
| | It is this that makes divine growth
|
| longing to find that place of being where
| |
| | possible. From here forward the mystic is
|
| we are at peace with ourselves and the
| |
| | involved in the active attempt to conform
|
| cosmos.Remember when you stood on that
| |
| | to this great mystery, to mold themselves
|
| high place or at the seaside or in a
| |
| | into the divine.It is possible that we
|
| forest and felt something stirring inside
| |
| | humans have powers of which we are only
|
| you, a subtle joy and a feeling and an
| |
| | barely aware. Our lives are full of signs
|
| awareness that you could not describe but
| |
| | that such powers and possibilities do
|
| none the less somehow felt that you
| |
| | exist. It would be a tragedy for the
|
| understood. A sense of belonging to
| |
| | human spirit to stifle such musings. We
|
| something greater than yourself and at
| |
| | can never become what we were meant to be
|
| the same time being a part of it, this is
| |
| | living with the dogma of a flat cosmos.
|
| the threshold of the Mystic
| |
| | Human life may well be a far more
|
| Way.RevelationIf the desire to know is
| |
| | enhanced, magnificent, and subtler
|
| great enough and we are diligent in the
| |
| | endeavor than we yet realize.
|
| pursuit of understanding this enigma, in
| |
| |
|