The full essence of personhood must contain an element of the divine in order to be complete. Fulfillment as a human being cannot occur without an awareness and acknowledgement of the spiritual component of our human nature. Recognizing the awe of the ongoing act of creation and living a life of compassion and service consonant with that recognition… that awareness is what makes each of us whole.
However we acknowledge this life force within us and around us, like the air we breathe; whether we think of it as a “watchmaker god” reasoning that since we did not call ourselves into existence someone or some force must have created us… or not, whatever our concept of the divine, we are less than complete as human beings if this awareness, this appreciation is not a part of us.
This recognition of the divine need not be based on any of the organized religions that purport to possess the way to this awareness, though for many of us they can provide the entry or portal that can lead us to this necessary element of our character, this essential component of our human makeup.
Religion alone does not substitute for the deep and intense longing for the divine, for this necessary component of life. Frankly, some religions and some religious practices border on the superstitious, acts that purport to be spiritual in and of themselves that merely mask and cloud the true essence of divinity that can only be realized by going deep within ourselves.
The mystery of our lives does not lend itself to definition, nor to capture through words or otherwise; it is beyond our limited powers of comprehension or understanding, and is only approachable… never obtainable… nothing to be possessed… never to be realized, but only to be aware of and appreciated and used as the fundamental component and basis of our personhood.
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