Question: I was wondering how does a person live in this world and still maintain their ideals. It seems the minute you expound a spiritual way there is something thrown at you and it is really hard to continue with your ideals?
Answer: The simple answer is that it is supposed to be that way, a wise man once said 'with fire we prove the gold, with gold we prove the fire'. Another saying comes to mind, I don't know where it came from, 'talk is cheap'.
To expand on this Sally, we are all tested, not to prove our good intentions to the Cosmos but to prove it to ourselves. If all there was to spiritual and personal growth was to simply say something then we would all be very advanced beings however it would all be built on sand, if I may paraphrase.
When we say something like; 'we are all Gods children and I love everyone'. It is as though the Cosmos answers back with, 'Well, how much do you actually mean that? Do you really understand the full implications of that? How are you going to put that into practice? In short you are tested, not by some smug self-righteous god trying to prove you wrong. No! by a Cosmos that wants you to grow and demonstrate to you the next step along the way. So being viewed in that way the things you say are thrown at you are really a good thing.
One more point Sally, consider the path of life as spiralling up a mountain, the spiritual path is straighter which means it is shorter but a lot steeper and harder. The wonderful thing about it is though, you are free to choose your own path. You can go down as well as up, you can stay where you are, you can amble about aimlessly, take a steady gradient or you can choose a more direct route, but be warned the straight and narrow path is incredible steep and filled with pitfalls.
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