SCIENCE AND SPIRIT II
In relation to last night’s piece on science and spirit - the essential component I wanted to add here is that we know everything, or perhaps better put there is nothing we do not know. Ram Dass reminded us that if we can only stop thinking and stop talking - there isn’t anything we will not come to know. All wisdom and knowledge are ours - in all truth deep within all hearts everywhere.
We are one with it all - it is only the developed mind - the intellect governed by the ego that blocks that truth from view - Rumi says “Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Another Rumi quote says “I spent my whole life looking for answers, knocking on a door, it opens - I’ve been knocking from the inside!”
YOU are the love you have been looking for in all your life - quieten the mind - and all wisdom will be yours.
Finally, we remember the infinite possibilities that are born of knowing that all love surrounds us, lives within us, and that all life is so very precious - there is not a moment to lose. So we love now all that we can, surrendering to its power within us - to the heart of it - and know that in the beginning - as in the end - it is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
It is said that we are but a drop in the ocean of love but I would say that in being a drop we are not separate from the ocean of which we are a drop- therefore there is no dilution in power. The drop and the ocean are one and the same. It is an illusion to think that we are ever separate.
This is why I get such great insights in taking my early morning trip to the bathroom - my mind is not yet engaged and wisdom shines through in those moments, my mind is at peace and my heart is open. Nigel Lott