Fall in Love with Your Life

The spiritual path has been likened to a razor’s edge. This scares some people, and they avoid the path, fearing the strenuous effort such an analogy implies. Yet no one can escape, because life itself is the spiritual path. Everyone is traveling this path—whether they realize it or not.
Most people do not wake up until, experiencing deep pain, they look for a way out of that suffering. They look at their lives and realize they cannot, by the force of their own will, create the happiness they are seeking. So they look for another way.
Others don’t wait for suffering. They question life. What is truth? Who am I? What is my purpose here? They seek wisdom.
Still others come to the path through love, drawn to self-knowledge through the yearning to love and serve God.
Whatever it is that brings us to that point, once we begin making spiritual effort, we find that we are not alone. To our great delight, we realize that we do not need to make the journey all by ourselves. As soon as we begin making spiritual effort, an inner divine grace meets us to reinforce our endeavors and propel us forward on the path. The mystic poet Kabir said: “It’s the yearning that does all the work.” The primary discipline of the spiritual life is to let ourselves be drawn by the soul’s natural love for what is life-giving. In other words, to fall in love with our life.
Here is the central paradox of the spiritual path: To become what we already are, and to seek what we already have. Remember when you were a child? You were naturally joyous. How did we lose that joy? We never did. We simply began to identify that joy with external things—our toys and our friends. And then one day all the building blocks fell down and we had nothing.
Or so we thought.>>>
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