Why do we have a Crisis?
Sometimes we pass through a crisis and the reason why we
pass through it, it seems, is to first find out what is in our heart and then
define our heart.
Typically these crises are to do with definition and we usually
end up in such a crisis because we have been harbouring a contradictory
attitude for too long and we have wound up at a very critical point. A very apt
name for this critical point is a point of definition.
Point of Definition
We usually reach a point of definition in our relationship
to something. Typically in our relationship to our spiritual work, even to our physical
work and of course in human relationships.
Why of a Definition Point
The definition point is characterised as being a point where
we can no longer progress in our relationship while still having a
contradictory attitudes, thoughts, feelings and actions. We feel that we can no
longer sit on the fence having a foot in both sides. Ando so the inevitable
appears, a choice, we have to choose a side and this can be painful. The more we
are attached to our contradictory attitude the more painful such a choice will
be.
If we are always one, that is a unity inside of ourselves in
relation to something we will never pass through such a crisis.
What is in our Heart
A crisis of definition brings out what we have inside of
ourselves in the positive and in the negative. We see all that we have, for
example in our heart in relation to a particular goal and we see what we have against
it or all that we value that is the opposite of that goal.
The crisis brings the ‘good’ values that agree and the ‘bad’
values that disagree into balance or onto the scales. There we see clearly that
we are lacking or that we just need a little push and the negative values will
be defeated.
Define Your Heart
Once we have seen our values on the scales, we can act. We
can define our heart. Even if our values for the goal are so low we can still
have that goal in our heart and so we revaluate our situation and decide
against for that goal and fight and keep fighting, or we could just give up
saying it is too hard. We can choose, or we may see that our values for the goal
outweigh the contradictory negative values, then that new awareness will solve
the crisis naturally and effortlessly and we won’t even have to make a
decision.
Conclusion
We can avoid these crises of definition by working quickly
on any contradictory attitudes or values that appear in us. The more we are a
unity (the less contradictions) in our relationship to something the further these
crises are from us. Solve any contradictions that you have as quickly as
possible and of course if the relationship is in your heart it is part of you
and you won’t be able to be different than it or separate from it.
The marvellous thing about the heart is that it unifies us
with something! How marvellous. We can not consider unity without looking into
the heart.
All the tests that we pass through are to access our degree
of unity with our which for the Gnostic is the esoteric path or it could be
something else, a cause etc.
End (127).
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