Spirituality, Brokenness, and Perspectives
Life happens. Sometimes for good and sometimes for bad. But at the end of it all, good or bad is not a state of being, but perspective. And that perspective is what will determine how much and to what extent we come out of the situation wiser, stronger, bolder, or broken.
There are more broken people walking on the streets of our nation, not because there are no people, institutions, or systems in place to bring them healing, but because a state of brokenness in itself has been defined as the result of badness and not what each goes through when they are about to rise to new heights. So instead of giving a helping hand to the one who is broken and down, we kick them and shame them for not being serious with their lives. But what if all they need at that point is a change of perspective?
Recently, due to some events in my life, I found myself with a lot of time to think about myself and how I have lived much of my life. A lot of time to reflect, review, upgrade, remove, edit out, reshape mindsets, and just basically recreate myself.
And while I believed I had not been under the influence of people, as a non-conformist, I actually was not aware of how much other people’s projections about me had shaped my outlook on life. How I reason things through the eyes of my one-sided perspective, which, to some extent, had flaws because it was shaped by years of other people’s projections of me and not my own conviction. I was surprised to say the least. And not necessarily because what I started seeing was bad in the sense of what you call bad, but that they were what I would call veils. Veils that shut me away from the sunlight of my true self. Veils that made me think that all there is about me is all there is.
I realized I must do something. And here is what I did.
I started taking myself seriously. I started taking my musings, thoughts, words, imaginations, projections, and intentions seriously. I started staying a little bit more in the place of silence, meditation, and the act of nothingness. I started paying attention to my self-talk. And one of the questions that came to me during this time was, if there were no Bible or any religious text compiled in a book or scrolls, how would I journey on earth under the guidance and instruction of the divine Father?
It was a question that I had thought about for many years before this time, but I was not bold enough to accept the answer as valid. I questioned that, if there were no religious texts or any form of religion, no saints and prophets to look up to, in what way would I have engaged my spirituality and also walk intentionally and willingly as a spiritual being experiencing humanity? How would I have engaged the mind of the Creator – the Eternal Father? That would be through my musings, imaginations, the Voice that speaks from within, the dreams, the revelations, and every engagement of truth that comes to me from the Spirit within.
I began to take seriously the truth that I am a divine being on earth, a God-Being on a journey experiencing humanity. I realized that it was possible to live a whole life based on the image and likeness that other people, religious institutions, education, and social systems project into me. I decided to stop and realigned myself according to who I am as a divine being on a journey on earth, not needing any external influence to guide my path, but that which flows from within me. It made sense that this was how the prophets and saints of old were led on their journeys on earth. But we, in this modern age, have mastered just copying the results of their journeys, without embracing the patterns of their lives.
Does this mean that spirituality is loneliness and a disengagement from people, saints, prophets, and servants of the Divine? No, it does not.
It simply means not to be afraid or disdainful of that which is within. That which is flowing from within, where the Eternal Father or Source dwells. It simply means you have come to understand that while there is a need for people on your journey, all you really need is just you and your Father. You and your Father are ONE. Not separated. No broken relationship. Father and son on a journey of discovery and bliss.
Therefore, you are not broken. You are not a failure. You are a God-Being experiencing on Earth what it feels like to be on Earth. And you can use your broken mirror to look and see yourself again.
