Most of us are fixated on who we are now, and what we hope to become in the future. We are constantly trying to change our current awareness-of-being into something else. We desire to reach a spiritual apogee that's much greater than our current one.
The more we try to change our current awareness-of-being, the more we dislike the current one. Our efforts lock us into a cyclical nightmare of daydreaming about the past, and its glorious fun days, to hoping we change to someone better in the future.
It's unfortunate for us that we have been taught by others to believe we are always spiritually incomplete. This incompleteness drives us to try and change something we cannot see or touch.
Nevertheless, after years of searching for spiritual awareness, most of us discover that it's far more difficult to change our spiritual awareness-of-being than our career or status. We also discover that spirituality is invisible, and therefore exists only in our individual beliefs and values.
Many of us think we have reached a spiritual apotheosis by simply saying it's so. After we do a few meditations, say a few prayers, and attend a few religious meetings, we believe we have elevated ourselves to a higher level of spiritual awareness.
We begin to emulate the spiritual motions of those whom we believe are more spiritually developed than us. In other words, we try to impress others by our outwardly spiritual gestures.
Similarly, some of us who are aware of the relationship between spirituality and consciousness understand that consciousness and awareness-of-being is one. And this means we don't try to impress others or seek their approval for our acceptance of consciousness as being the only spirituality we can ever know.
When we open our consciousness to perceive ourselves without our current beliefs and values, we understand that spirituality is just another word from the beliefs and values we were taught by others.This means it's changeable.
Meanwhile, our spirituality is not sacrosanct. For most of us, it exists in the beliefs and values that we received from our parents, society, and experience. And our reliance on what others taught us distort whatever theosophical perspective we can discover that will define it's true meaning.
Spirituality, like enlightenment, exists in its pure form only in our unconditioned consciousness. This means it's not found in the teachings of others.
The path to our unconditioned consciousness is one illumined by our Powers of Mind. This is the consciousness that contains within itself a limitless number of awareness-of-beings.
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