Life’s Mystery & The Spiritual Journey

The need to know is what fuels the spiritual journey (for most).

And your catalyst for the search that defines your unique path can range from awe-inspired curiosity and passionate seeking, to flat out frustrated confusion and worldly dispassion. A healthy balance, it seems, is marked by a mixture of inspiration that covers both ends of the spectrum.

And so…you ask (in a variety of different ways): who am I, where do I come from/where am I going at the end of this life, why am I here/what am I doing here, what is this (all about), what is True/Real/important and what is not, and how do I live/be (in) my greatest expression/how do I live up to my full potential in this lifetime?

It is because you inherently intuit that to state “I am” means more than to refer to your physical and mental bodies that you seek complete answers, and not just superficial (changing/subjective) descriptions of/about your observable and interpreted body-mind within space and time.

When you eat a strawberry, you can exist in a space where you declare it a mystery, never going beyond the effect of the stimuli on your senses (if you even go that far to begin with due to being dulled down/lost in a state of mindless consumption). But to seek to understand what is and how you experience it, leads you down a completely different path.

If you study a material phenomena, you can learn about molecules, receptors, hormones, evolution, emotions, and so forth.

If you are still curious and you seek to study further, you can endeavor into philosophy and connect to a different form of knowing through art.

And, if you are still curious, you can dig a bit deeper into the greater “unknown,” and ask where phenomena, knowledge of it, and the existence that it appears within, come from in the first place. What is this, and how does it relate to “you/me,” who also exists, and eats strawberries?

Spirituality is seeking answers to, and in, the “unknown,” where the Self and all that is, exists (ideally after understanding the basics of what is already known, so you do not fall into delusion and fantasy).

Successfully done, it is a process of coming to know yourself/your Self freely, Truly, and Purely, without the barrier of simple objectification or complex philosophizing.