Spirituality and How to live in the outer world
When we depend on the outer world it is because we don’t feel our oneness with the Love of the Universe. We don’t trust that the Universe even knows we’re here, much less that It loves us and is providing all our needs (even when it looks like the world is providing it). We hold onto things. We hoard. We worry about where our good will come from, or if it will come at all. We’re unaware of our freedom to focus our mind on what we want, and open our heart to that Universal Love that will provide it, and that through our focus and openness to receiving, we’ll call to us all that we need to live a life of joy, peace, love, and abundant good. That is why Jesus said long ago, for us to be in the world but not of the world.
Our independence from the world is essential if we want to experience the full spiritual package we’ve been given to fully express as our self in healthy and happy ways in the world. Independence and freedom are always present right where we are as our power to choose how we want to see the world, how we want to be in the world, and how we want to respond to the world we see. Our power to choose is so free that our choices don’t depend on any of our previous choices. Every day, and every moment throughout the day, we are free to make new choices.