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Inner Work For the week of December 25, 2006 The Unseen “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.” [1] We should not expect to see God with our physical eyes or touch God with our hand. Indeed, the reality is just the reverse: God may see with our eyes or touch with our hand. But to come toward this realization, we first understand that we do not see God and that our not-seeing does not rule out God’s reality. How else could it be? The Creator cannot be confined to space and time. That may be obvious, but … Taking the realization of not-seeing as our guide, we catch a hint of the Unseen sacred. The Unseen hides beyond our senses, beneath the surface of this physical universe and our mental world. If we cannot perceive God with our senses, then perhaps we have another, dormant perceptual capability appropriate to the spiritual depths. By remembering the Unseen and embracing the understanding that we cannot see God, we can seek a different mode of perception, of recognizing and touching the silent inwardness of the world, of perceiving the sacred Light invisible to eyes and instruments, and even of reconnecting with the Transcendent beyond the Light. Nothing in this physical universe can approach there. Only our innate spiritual capacity, the very core of who we are, belongs to that sacred inwardness. Only that “I am” volition can slip through the veils of the senses and consciousness to discern the True. We learn where and how not to look by looking everywhere until we exhaust all conceivable directions. Then one day, without knowing how, exploring, we look beyond the conceivable, beyond thought and consciousness. We delve into the quintessential marrow of who we are and into the hidden Foundation of this world. And there discover the trail to the Treasure. For this week, remember the Unseen as unseen. Let your non-seeing open the gates of wonder and search for the Real. [1] Matthew 13:44 |
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