The Process: Part II

Personal surroundings are asking the questions where am I at socially, economically, and answers what tools you have at your disposal. These are the things that are going to determine the path you will travel to get wherever it is you want to go. Do you live in a city, are you a lawyer, student, housewife, caregiver, or homeless. Do you speak the primary language of your country? By answering these things you can determine a course of action. Find out what are your needs, and wants. It’s a sense of direction. These are the building blocks of our home, our personal temple, our sense of self, and self worth. Write down your questions, spend time with your answers find the answers, because you cannot proceed in life until all those an answered. You will always return to them over and over during the course of life.
Time and again we will get the wind knocked out of our sails, something will happen to send us into panic or sadness. How we respond to those events determines the lasting effect for our future. I believe that our bodies are a vessel, or a mobile house for our spiritual core. Some would call this an eternal soul, others the blue spark of life. Whatever the term it is eternal, and it is a reflection of god, or a higher power and it has a higher purpose. We, as humans, need to bring out that purpose in the actions of living our lives. The process I talk about is a way of finding that purpose regardless of what ever it is to each person. If your souls purpose is to get food because you are starving then here is how you do it. Go look for food. Don’t sit down, go hunt, beg, work or forage for it, but go and do it. If you want to be closer to God, take time, and go and do it. Define it. Seek, and he will come to you if you really want him to come. He will teach you the value of faith, but prolonged faith will lead you to believe in the Divine.
Each of us has a story inside, a written manuscript, and a roadmap given to us at birth. The only way to find the manuscript for your story, or read the road map is to determine what is in your heart. By honest and truthful examination, of every event that has been in your life, and then answering what is in our heart? Good, bad, indifference, hurt, pain, joy, and desire. Answer that, and you are on to the next step in the process.
This examination will be repeated over and over again, and must be done periodically until we listen. If you fail to identify what is in there, your heart, then you will continue to make the same mistakes you currently make. You will repeat patterns, until you listen to it. This is, in part, what is meant by turning it over to GOD. What ever is in your heart is the roadmap of your life. It is where you find your bliss, and every time you ignore it, you will loose your path in life. Once we listen, accept everything about limitations, our weakness, and ourselves only then do we find faith. Only then do we have access to the divine, and only then can we read the roadmap to travel our life path, or read the blueprints to build our house.
Finding your heart is the same as finding a spiritual center. It is paramount to finding permanent solutions to your problems. Faith is the mortar we use for the building blocks we identified earlier. By giving into the inclinations of our hearts, we can tap into our faith in the divine, and find the right mix of portions to lay the first layer of bricks over a human structure. Even faith in you can be a spiritual experience. It worked for Buddha.
to be continued,...

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