Center for Spiritual Living Huntsville David Leonard

Could experience be for humans what erosion is for elements?  Is the purpose of experience, over a lifetime, to carry us to what matters and then wear us away till we become part of the sweet water the next generation drinks?  If this is so, then what is the work of being human?

Is it possible that with each inhalation we take in the world, we also awaken our soul?  And with each exhalation, do we free ourselves of the world which inevitably entangles us?  Is this how we fill up and empty a hundred times a day, seeking the gift of the two breaths?  Perhaps this is the work of being.

Rabindranath Tagore wrote, “Where the mind is without fear, the head is held high: where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward effortlessness, where the clear stream of life has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Into the heaven of freedom, let us awaken.”

The Dalai Llama has said that “My religion is kindness.” Kindness is the antidote to everything. It is the kindness and wisdom we encounter beyond our fears that brings us Alive.

What if in the midsts of our troubles we are given the gift we need? Every circumstance incubates the soul so it might germinate while we are here. By entering where we are, thoroughly, we see a way to navigate the gifts of life.

I never stop trusting that life will give me exactly what I need. It is then my privilege to work with what I have been given. Reaping the blessings is the art of gratitude and inter-being.