We do not have to go away outside ourselves to come into real conversation with our soul and with the mysteries of the spiritual world. The eternal is at home -- within us, just a “hello in there!” away.
When we regain a sense of our life as a journey of discovery, we return to the rhythm of our soul. When we take the time to travel with reverence, a richer life unfolds before us.
We also reawaken the soul as our entire being responds with gladness to any call of beauty because in an instant, Beauty awakens in our soul, under the layers of our heart, a forgotten brightness. Plato said in Phaedrus: 'Beauty is ours in all its brightness ... Whole are we who celebrate that festival'.
But beauty does not linger, she only visits. Beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into her rhythm; she calls us to feel, think, and act beautifully in the world, and to pass on her secret: she begs us to create and live a life that awakens her spirit in others.
Spirituality is the Beauty of Transfiguration. We should not force ourselves to change by hammering our lives into any predetermined shape. Rather, we need to practice a new art of attention to the inner rhythm of our days and lives. This attention brings a new awareness of our own human and divine presence.
So take a breath and find what is unsolved in your heart.
Breathe in steadfastness, a resolve to deep care for yourself ... breathe in love.
Love yourself bountifully.
And send that love out to others from the center of your being, down your arms and out from your fingertips, as far as east is from west. We are the center of that circle of love.
When we send love out from the bountifulness of our own love, it reaches to the ends of the universe.
This love is the deepest power of prayer.
~ most of this is John O’Donohue
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