A look at oneself, humanity, and the world around us
From a temporal perspective, in the grand scheme of all existence, each individual’s life is but a brief moment. Everything ends and is renewed. At every moment our body changes, everything around us changes – and these are changes that, for the most part, we are unaware of.
Perhaps you have already asked yourself: “Is this process of constant change helping me to evolve?” The answer to this question can be unsettling – to truly evolve, one must realise that there is a chasm between the natural human state and its goal of transformation: to become a truly divine human being. After all, looking from above, outside of time, we observe that the natural human being is also a divine creation with meaning and purpose.
However, our natural human state is marked by egocentricity, and the egocentric condition is closed in on itself. To truly evolve, beyond the external changes resulting from the endless natural cycles, one must discern and detach from the egocentric automatisms in a daily process of self-observation, until these gradually dissolve. Without this, despite the apparent changes, one will only repeat old patterns.
Notwithstanding the constant changes in everything and everyone, something still feels unchanging, and gives the impression of remaining constant throughout our lives. Perhaps you have already asked yourself: “What is it within me that is static?” The answer to this question may also be surprising. The ability to perceive ourselves and everything around us, that aspect of consciousness, is something that is always present and never changes. But we cannot fail to mention a common confusion. We often accept as our identity, the product of our natural creative faculties, and thus fail to realise that what truly identifies us, and does not change, is this faculty of perception and its higher, reflective counterpart: the spiritual core in our hearts.
And what are these natural faculties that direct our daily lives? The head, the heart and our life of action. Consequently, their products are our thoughts, feelings, desires, actions, and reactions. It is precisely from this process of identification that the false idea evolves that our personality, which constantly changes, is what characterizes our entire state of life. Thus, from this, we mostly fail to live in the present and become trapped in identifying ourselves with the past, or are moved by our fearfulness of the future.
Let us therefore, look for a moment at our faculty of perception, and ask: who or what directs it? If we are honest, we will say that our perception is imprisoned by the product of our internal creative faculties (thinking, feeling, desiring, and the will to act), and does not allow itself to be guided by its spiritual pole, the spark of the spirit in the heart that is our true Self.
How can we change this situation? How do we allow the ‘Spirit Spark’ to guide us, instead of the old self-centred will? Well, through the processes of deconstruction and reconstruction. That is, we need to change the core of our being, gradually nullifying all of our self-centred attachments. In summary: we need to allow a new consciousness, one that is clear as crystal, to freely receive the renewing and transcendent cosmic influences of the Spirit. After all, many still do not know that the human being possesses a spark of the divine Spirit. Activating this ‘jewel in the lotus’, this ‘seed grain of Jesus’ in your heart, and allowing it to guide your life, is the beginning of your true evolutionary path. This is the path of development that transforms us from natural human beings, into truly divine human beings. Therefore, we can say in full confidence: the first step on this path is to reorientate our focus, raising our eyes to the Spirit. All true change will come from that moment, but it does not happen in the blink of an eye. This reorientation is a daily focus: a process that lasts a lifetime.
