It Cant be Taught

 Spirituality can't be taught.  At least my kind of Spirituality isn't taught.  Most anyone knows what love is when they feel it, but Spirituality is acquired over time and patience.  It HAS to be sought after.  It doesn't happen overnight, nor does one just simply decide to be a Spiritual person.  My purpose here is not to evangelize.  Some of my posts here are home runs and some are duds.  Some are just informative, but my bread-and-butter is about my Spirituality.  And maybe my thoughts about love hit some soft spots.

I just can't teach what I've acquired over the years.  I could write every post about love and Spirituality, as I enjoy commenting on the unusual, but it seems the world is in short supply of both love and Spirituality and I could spend all my time writing about both, because they seem to go hand-in-hand.  And since I consider myself a kind of theologian/philosopher, I could just park myself there.

As my wife might say, I can get preach-y and I want to avoid doing that as much as possible, mostly because that is something I do NOT want to do.  It's just that both Spirituality and love feels good.  I have these warm feelings about both and I can't really separate one from the other.  It's not that one can exist without the other, but they go together.  

Love is taught by example as loving gives love in return, but Spirituality is more nebulous than this.  It's why I can't teach it.  I can demonstrate love, but I can't do that with Spirituality.  I could say one has it or one doesn't.  But if one seeks it, then one knows when they possess it. I could make a number of comments about my pipe being part of my Spirituality, but it's just best to call it a tool, but the one thing I can say is that my Sporituality deepens my love.

And maybe that says all there needs to be said.  That includes love for myself.  But the power of meditation can't be overstated.  I won't suggest that power is found in a pipe.  It's not about a pipe.  That's one reason I can't teach my Sporituality.  But without sounding boastful, my Spirituality is strictly my own.  I could say this about most any Spiritual person.  It is uniquely personal.  Love is not.  It's universal and is meant to be shared.  But the best love begins with the Spiritual nature of a person.  I could say more this morning, but any more is preach-y. 

My Spiritualiry connects me with the Divine.  Love connects me with family and others.  Both, I believe, are equally important.  I would say the depth of love begins with my Spirituality.  When I meditate and allow my Spirit Guides to work, my mind is calm about ALL things.  This is when I feel love the most.  It is almost like a drug I have to have that begins with the Peace that comes with the endorphins.  I really can't separate the two.  This feeling includes love for the self.

I could say so much more this morning but this might explain why my Spirituality is so important to me.  I would go so far to say that my Sporituality IS my mental and physical well-being.  I never worry my pipe could do me harm.  I feel my pipes have more positive benefits that negative harm.  But maybe only I can say this.  I would never recommend that smoking a pipe be a part of anyone's Spirituality.  They were a part of my lifestyle before and have been a part since.  Today it is my Gettysburg pipe with some Captain Black Cherry tobacco with a cup of hot dark roast coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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