Spiritual Living 7

Spiritual Living 8

how can we have any problems?

Because there is a break in the flow.

Somewhere along the way we have tricked ourselves to believe that we are out of that flow. We’ve pinched ourselves off like a leaf pinching itself off from the rest of the flower and withdrawing, cutting ourselves off from the flow, pretending we can survive without the sap.

It’s a lot like shooting ourselves in the foot! Then what happens? We suffer.

The sap is there, it’s available to us—the water is available to the swimming person: they just has to open their mouth and accept.

We just need to open to the flow, to wholeness. But we are not opening, we haven’t been taught how to do it, we don’t know the techniques, the procedures.

The swimmer doesn’t “see” the water in the same way we don’t see air! They see it as something to swim in, but not to drink.

So the swimmer, not seeing the water as drinkable, deludes itself into believing there is no solution to quenching their thirst. There is a solution, they just don’t “see” it.

Not seeing wholeness, we believe it’s not there. We begin to believe we are separate from the flow of sap into our leaf, [our life]. Because the Source is unmanifest, it has no manifested visible/hearable/tastable/etc. way to know it’s there: the Wholeness is not obvious.

So we don’t connect to it— just like a leaf not connecting to the sap, like the swimmer who doesn’t realize they can drink the water.

So what we find is that all of the problems that we have in life, the pain, all of the discomfort that we have is due to the break in this flow of spirituality, this flow of wholeness, this flow of in unity from within us, through us, to itself at the edge of the universe.

Next is the cool part:

See it in Spiritual Living 9...