Spirituality in Modern Times
People have confused spirituality with a denial of material possessions, and isolating oneself from modernity. This couldn’t be further from the truth. All matter, energy, space, and time originate from the spiritual world, and you as a spiritual being. Even thought, symbols, and ideas are actually manifestations of energy and matter existing in space through time.
This does not mean that you should go out and buy the latest games console and spend the rest of your life playing it. The point is, and also with most other things, that there is a gradient scale of spirituality and materialism. A lot of spiritual practices are oriented towards a denial of the materialistic. This attempts at overcoming the physical universe by exiting out of the bottom of the scale. To exit out of the top is to be at cause over all materiality, beginning with control of the energy of thought and emotions, up through the material of the physical universe. In order to take control you are actually taking responsibility for. The more responsibility you take, the bigger you will grow. Put it this way, have you ever helped someone? Have you ever helped a person across the road? How did you feel afterwards? You would have felt very good about yourself, pleased, happy, and you would have felt rather light and airy. This is because you took responsibility, controlled, and grew because of it. Even recalling such an event you will get that feeling back. How do you feel now? It is good to validate yourself. The key is to acknowledge yourself and all that you have accomplished. Now it is time to take steps into more responsibility. Again this must be taken on a gradient scale. Start with the things you can easily take responsibility for. Then those things you have always wanted to be, the things you always wanted to do, and the things you always wanted to have. Keep plugging away at these, and always validate yourself along the way. This is the path to true spirituality.
