It never fails you know. Just as one gains momentum and really sets the mind to the strings of life and the daily chores of being who one is in the new year, there is always some group, some institution or some entity that throws something into the news-sphere to stop you in your tracks so you have to take some notice of what's been said.

Many would suggest that one shouldn't bother noticing and of course they are quite correct. When however the statement yet again comes from some grand spiritual fixture of the world, suggesting that supreme tolerance is always the fare when many in the world are certain that the other side of that presentation is and has been obviously the case, the mind runs amok with the effects of such flexible intolerance to begin with. Thus was this day for this author as I made my daily run of the spiritual news of the day for anything of "positive" interest.

I recall recently listening to a talk show host of some popular notoriety discuss how some to his own notice lament the age of the 1950's and its seemingly sheen, clean and controlled exterior. People, he said did seem to on the surface, be put together so much better. Matters, he said appeared to be more disciplined in the family unit. I had to spend some major time in all of that thinking of the factual history surrounding that age and where society truly was then, in comparison to today's common day age. When one ponders what personal life and individual awareness really was at that time and its overall effects on society as a whole, to this author it's a toss-up between that sheen exterior that did present so well in a documentary or a film or a stop at one of those retro-diners, and what life and society is like today for all of its open-mindedness, its frank and above the counter discussions of everything from sexuality to the grand effects of the religious establishment and what had, has and does really go on behind closed doors.

Awareness on the surface is one thing some might think, but a truthful awareness of what life and existence truly is far surpasses the mere sheen of a glamorous haircut, all of those fin-styled-lines to the autos and the old fashioned way of hardly ever talking about or revealing any personal fabric of oneself heaven forbid that one should have to come face to face with the reality of where one truly stood in the universe as compared to how an establishment or some figure of rule, be that spiritually or otherwise, would dictate to others how they "will" exist. Personally I'll remain in this age with all of its failings and faulty growing self-awareness that at times seems to move against thousand year old establishments dictates.

However, this author, and yes, this "spiritualist", and I remain unashamedly open and proud of that last title despite some of the nature of some critiques by choice others, does have to remain firm in his convictions that the virtues of such things as patience and tolerance for the ways of others as one would only wish and hope and pray that others would be as patient and tolerant of oneself are fine qualities to behold and withhold. If in fact the past ages of a society known and remembered did somehow teach and communicate of these virtues in some finer way than we seem to do so in our common day age, then I applaud the remembrances of such past ages and do hope for a re-birth of such teachings today in ever deeper ways.

Mere alliances of religious or spiritual belief do not incline anyone or place demands upon anyone by force of will or word to simply adopt a way of being as dictated as "THE one and only truth" of existence. To recognize the eloquence and the beauty to any way of belief is to honor that belief, and in that vein of recognition, perhaps some leadership figures might best recall that sometimes the wiser ways of communicating ideals of worship, of spiritual thought, of spiritual belief isn't to chastise or to inflict shame upon another group, some gathering or in fact a nation of people, but instead to adopt an attitude of common respect, an adoration for spiritual thought and overall an attitude of patience and love for the ways of others.

Such ways, if placed before ones own footsteps reminds others of the true sheen to the capacity of a spiritual and a religiously spiritual soul merely by virtue of ones own self-respecting presentation in all of existence. It attracts people like moths to a summer nights lit doorstep lamp!

Something to think on...

As Always,

WD

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