‘In a village where everyone only has one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him’- ancient proverb

How can people validate that which is unknown, that is outside the remit of their perceptions, when most of the time their judgement of familiar things is faulty?

Many people look for a ‘Path’, a teaching, as an alternative to their current social lives. Not because they necessarily are looking for truth, but because they are unsatisfied socially.

When we ‘work’ on ourselves we need to do it with a sense of responsibility – just as if we were getting paid for it.

We have no real attention span…just a few flickering seconds of the senses – like corks bobbing up and down on the surface of the sea.

When we wake up in the mornings how do we know that we didn’t die during the night and have woken up in a completely new reality, although a continuation of the old one?

The inner evolutionary imperative is not a shopping list, or the random acquisition of abilities, nor the gaining of emotional satisfaction. It is a genuine inner need that, if acted upon sincerely and with genuine intention, can be of immense benefit to the individual and to the planet.

Just as in recent years the credit bubble placed many people into a false sense of security by offering the possibility to obtain untold goodies, so too does the promise of repetitious and ritualistic forms of spirituality.

We would do well to consider that the ‘spiritual’, as we have come to call it, is none other than necessary human nutrition, a daily requirement for living. Yet like eating and breathing, it has to be correctly integrated into our lives without making a song and dance about it.

Modern society is an ‘on-demand’ life where we are used to receiving that which we request – a demand-supply conditioning. Because of this we are often at the mercy of the conveyor belt of spiritual-supply. Yet the first steps should begin with a person having a dialogue with themselves.

Society offers the entire stimulus we need; there is no need for us to seek out more. Likewise, it is not necessary that we retreat to a cave in order to escape this sensory overload. Any true spiritual endeavour has to be in harmony with one’s life.

The blind imitation of practices that are often sold to us as spiritual techniques may seem harmless. Yet the misdirection of our needs, and the denial or proper nourishment, can leave a person not only vulnerable to exploitation but also starving of correct nourishment.