Walking this spiritual path takes the courage to look at ourselves without reservation, carefully sorting truth from distortion. More than anything, this path is humbling. It’s not just that we must look at parts of ourselves we may prefer to hide.
We must set down our ideas about things too. Like faith. And Christ.
We’re so invested in our ideas. To set them aside feels like floating untethered in space. Our ego mind doesn’t like this. No, sir, not one little bit. Nothing left to grab onto.
But when faith is no longer something we convince ourselves of—when we make space for something we can’t yet conceive of—what emerges is something entirely different. It’s fresh and alive in our inner experience.
True faith doesn’t ask us to bypass the difficulties and contradictions of life. It asks us to meet ourselves as we go through them. Faith, surrender and trust are not forms of weakness or naivety. They require us to stand firmly in ourselves while remaining open to a deeper reality.
It’s the same with Christ.
He was pointing to exactly this inner process.
The teachings and symbolism of Christ show us how to find our way through the painful splits of duality. Of this versus that. Life versus death. Even meekness, so often confused with weakness, takes on a very different meaning when understood from this deeper place.
Spiritual work is not about becoming something we are not. It is about uncovering what is already within us. The light inside—safe and secure in our Higher Self—has never been absent.
It has only been obscured.
Faith too. As the walls of distortion begin to dissolve, we discover that true faith isn’t a handrail we can grab onto when a storm arises. It’s the firm ground we walk on in all weather.
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