where’s my diamond necklace?

 

We use such metaphors as ’path’ and ‘journey’ when talking about living consciously; the ancients used ‘way’ and ‘tao’ to name our spiritual unfolding. The risk in using such language is that it suggests life as going from point A to point B, following a certain plan or map with “correct” choices to be made en route. If only we chose the right education, job, partner, religion, dress, life style, etc., so conventional thinking goes, all will be well.

 

Why then are we dissatisfied with where we are and what we have? Why are we easily bruised when things and people don’t behave as we expect them to? Could it be that we mistake life’s twists and turns as irritating obstacles and annoying hindrances, instead of as the spiritual path itself? Could it be that we’re looking to find happiness “out there,” while knowing, deep down, that our spiritual home lies within?

 

“Put simply,” writes Andrew Harvey, “we are already what we seek  …. what we are looking for with such an intensity of striving and passion and discipline is already within and around us at all times.”

 

Rumi says:

You wander from room to room

Hunting for the diamond necklace

That is already around your neck!

source: Harvey, A. (2000). The direct path: creating a personal journey to the divine. New York: Broadway Books, p.35. image: spluch.blogspot.com

 

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