Spiritual and emotional maturity
Spiritual Maturity requires emotional maturity
We just spent a weekend with Tom Stone learning the technology of upgrading our emotional software from his book "The Power of How." I am reminded, once again, that we can not bypass the need to become proficient in dealing with, processing and moving through our emotional experiences if we truly want to live from a spiritually mature place.
Since we are truly a wholeness of spirit/energy, mind/emotions, and body/experience; than all these levels of our life need to be cared for and brought into alignment with the truth of our essential nature. The nice thing about this is that we can enter into the cycle anywhere; we can start with any one of the three. However, we can not neglect the other two. I find it uncomfortable to hear people speak about being spiritual, or meditating a lot, or being in touch with their angels and guides, who then communicate, function, or behave as if they were still in high school.
We can not have true spiritual maturity if we are run by the habits of avoiding pain or living from our past hurts. Expectations, projections, incompletion from the past, and other emotional habits stand in the way of our ability to live, every day, every moment, in any situation, in the truth of our being.
Yet the truth of our being can not be hidden or lost, not really. It is always there, always present, no matter what. We have all our experiences in the ground of being that is the essential reality of our nature. All we have to do, as Tom states, is to look past the clouds of our thoughts/emotions to the vast, limitless reality that is the truth of who/what we are. The sky is always there, the clouds are simply in the sky. Our thoughts/emotions are simply experiences in the field of our pure awareness, our essential reality. Always. All the time. In ever circumstance.
We do not need to seek this reality. What we do need to do is remove any barriers that stand between us and our continual experience of this reality/awareness. Emotional maturity is the willingness, ability and skills to remove those barriers. Than our spirituality is our lived experience - not something we seek, try to become, or hope to someday attain or achieve.
As Holmes reminds us, "What you are looking for, you are looking with, and looking it." It's already all there, in you, as you. That is the promise of emotional and spiritual maturity.
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