We love life and health.
We work very hard to be physically healthy, to build strong physical lives. We want to live as long, and as well, as we can. When we are injured or sick, it is urgent that we get care. It is an emergency.
We are anxious about our financial lives. We work hard to make sure we have the resources we need to buy what we want. We protect our investments. We get help from experts we trust to live the financial lives we seek.
We develop our analytical and emotional lives. We try to strengthen our intellectual and emotional intelligence. We seek teachers and people we can talk to who help us meet our potential.
When it comes to spiritual life, though, we often cover our eyes and hope it will just go away to hide a little longer.
There are reasons we hide from spiritual life. Spiritual life can be intimidating. Spiritual life is not as measurable, not as easy for us to grasp, as physical or financial life. Even intellectual and emotional life are more understandable to us than spiritual life.
Spiritual life makes us uncomfortable, so we spend even less time and energy seeking it.
We see spiritual life as beyond us. It seems pointless to try when it is beyond our control, and boring when nothing happens. We allow our fears to separate us from our own spiritual lives.
In the same way we seek physical or intellectual health, we can develop habits that feed our spiritual lives. It is not about earning points; it is about becoming more open to, less intimidated by, less afraid of spiritual life and health.
It is about teaching ourselves how not to hide.
Are you hiding from spiritual life?
How do you seek to deepen your own spiritual life?
[Image by Gideon Tsang]
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