Maturity of the Path's Fellow Companions - (2453)

To be a companion of others walking the path requires maturity. I would even say a spiritually oriented type of maturity.

As anyone walks the path, what is hidden to themselves and maybe to others, has to come out, and become as visible as necessary, for as long as necessary, so that it can be overcome.

On the path, what matters is that the hidden baggage we are carrying comes out. It doesn't matter so much how - only that it comes out.

Some stages of the path are too difficult to walk while being weighed down by hidden baggage. So the baggage must be dropped. 

People always get stuck on how the baggage comes out and on the nature of what is coming out. 

This is immaturity and the 'how' and 'what', is not what is important. What is important is that what comes out is overcome, transformed and dissolved.

People who lack maturity get disappointed, upset, lose faith and stop their own work...

The truth is we all have a lot of ugly hidden baggage that needs to come out, and be transformed into strength and light... 

It is all transitory, it is all about stages, it passes quickly to reveal something new and so on and so on. To get stuck is to be sleepy in our consciousness because we are forgetting our own Being and our own work.

Do we know what is hidden in us and has to come out yet? Have we worked enough to be able to handle what is hidden in us? 

To understand the above points is maturity.

An even greater degree of maturity is required, the closer we are to others walking the path. 

We as companions, are often directly affected by what comes out of the person walking the path or the person working seriously on themselves. 

This can be difficult to deal with and requires drawing on our own consciousness, work, virtues and strengths to transform and deal with it.

To be a companion, a friend of fatih, a brother or sister of the path, implicitly means to see a lot of darkness before the light shines and to go through a lot of hardship before easier times come along.

All of this requires SPIRITUAL maturity.

End (2453).