Daily Meditation: Sunday, March 7, 2010

Spiritual life - practising it does not im­- mediately solve every problem

03/07/2010

Don't imagine that heaven will be so thrilled to see you become a member of a Church or another spiritual movement that it will come to make life easy for you and spare you trials. No, whether you are spiritual or materialistic, you will come up against life's difficulties. But continue on your way, knowing that the trials you will have to face will purify you and strengthen you, because you will have learned to view them differently. By accepting a spiritual teaching, the poor do not become rich, the ignorant erudite, the sick healthy, the weak strong, and the spurned or the unknown do not receive honour and glory. There, you have been warned! And there may even come a time when you feel even worse than before. Why? Because the first thing this new life does as it starts to circulate in you is get busy cleaning, and then, what a commotion! As desirable as it is for you to decide to give a better direction to your life, you should be aware beforehand that this decision will produce upheavals in you. Otherwise, you will not understand what is happening to you, and you will return to your old life and have to start all over again.