“Why”
If you ask a traveler on a spiritual journey, “what is the Aim of their Work?,” you might receive a response such as, “I wish to Awaken.” This is a beautiful Aim, but a follow-up question might be, “Why?”
For me, this deeply personal question asks us to ponder the meaning of this process. What does it mean to be Awake? Why have we been given this opportunity in this lifetime? What is the “Good” of this Work and how can it help me, as well as, others?
I don’t think the "Why?" question can be answered in short-hand, although the intellect, imagination, and ego could probably do so. Perhaps the answer(s) are revealed as the layers of false personality are stripped away and the revelations of the soul are unveiled. Perhaps the answer can only be revealed as Rilke suggests; through “living the question.” For as St. Paul says, “now we see through the glass darkly” and only through living and Being will we be able to “be clear” in the sight of God, and then come to a better understanding of why.
It is a question worth asking, meditating upon, and praying for-with both urgency and patience,without identification or imagination…And perhaps in some not too distant future, we will “come into knowing through unknowing.”
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