On this plane of duality, we speak of the new and the old. Often, we think of one as being good and the other as being bad. If we search more deeply into spiritual reality, we’ll see that neither of the terms “old” and “new” make sense. There isn’t old or new—there is both. Seeing truth asks us to embrace the old and the new—the tradition and the change.
This longing to know ourselves at a deeper level—at the level of the divine kernel itself—means we must access the realm of feelings. We fear, however, that this is a bottomless pit of meaningless bleakness, unknown terror, unreasonable violence and selfishness. Yes, such layers of negativity do exist in us. But they are a thin veneer compared to our true unlimited depths.
You could say our life is an instrument that picks up on the wavelengths coming from within. Like a radio that can only play what it receives, our outer experiences can only reflect our inner self. In other words, all the disharmonies and conflicts that show up “out there” in life are always a reflection of what is really going on inside us. We will start to see this is true when we start to face into our inner illusions.
