Braving the Path to the Intangible

Contributed by Rev. Dr. Trish Hall

“The mysterious path of spirituality is a path to the intangible. Human beings are used to the tangible. From tangible to intangible and knowing to the unknowable, the path is quite treacherous and often winding. There are many trials and errors possible. Many falls and rises. Tenacity and conviction plus the will to survive against all odds will keep us going. It is a long and winding road by itself.”

The Path of Pathlessness … Mohanji

We humans spend most of our time living circumstantially, reacting to our environment – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.  Feeling a sense of discontentment, we are drawn to search, to what Ernest Holmes called “The Great Search.”   

“The world seeks a solution of its great riddle—the apparent separation between God and man; between life and what it does; between the invisible and the visible; between the Father and the Son—and until this riddle is solved, there can be no peace. Peace is an inner calm, obtained through man’s knowledge of what he believes and why. Without knowledge, there is no lasting peace. Nothing can bring peace but the revelation of the individual to himself, and a recognition of his direct relationship to the Universe. He must know that he is an eternal being on the pathway of life, with certainty behind him, certainty before him, and certainty accompanying him all the way. Peace is brought about through a conscious unity of the personal man with the inner principle of his life—that underlying current, flowing from a divine center, pressing ever outward into expression. But this can never come by proxy. We can hire others to work for us, to care for our physical needs, but no one can live for us. This we must do for ourselves.”

We intuitively seek Peace.  Both Dr. Holmes and Mohanji caution that we should not assume that it will be easy, yet we have within us everything we need to make the journey. We must make the journey for ourselves – we are the only ones who can.

The challenge that I lay before all of us is, are we willing to release the known, the visible, that which we believe with certainty in order to experience Divine Peace?  Do you trust the process deeply enough to venture into the realm of the pathless?

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