A Lesson from the Spirit
“Why do rivers gather into seas, and the seas flow into the ocean?”
“That’s how the world is made.”
“Yes. But why?”
“I don’t know.”
“They seek an outlet and inevitably find it in something larger, and then in something still larger. Moving gradually toward a set goal, you do not notice the ground you have covered.
Your route is lit and illuminated by a single thought of the possibilities granted to you at the end of the path.
Have you ever thought about the finale of the story?
You have surely wondered how a story would end as you turned page after page. But the more interesting the book became, the more greedily you read it.
And you feared that the finale would come soon and the reading would end. You delayed that moment, you enjoyed it.
“About what? Those are different stories.”
“They are two different stories, but with the same ending.
It is up to you how to read your own story—skipping paragraphs and pages, flipping ahead to the finale, or reading slowly and measuredly, savoring every line, worrying and celebrating, consoling and grieving.
All of that is living the story, its substance. But without substance a pie becomes bland.
A river does not strive to reach the ocean; it simply flows, winding around stones, eroding banks.
It has its own story, its own mission. And it is not primarily about becoming the ocean, but first and foremost about giving life to everything within it, everything that depends on it.
So you must understand the importance of your path. Not by peeking at the end of the chapter, but by reading every page of your book of life, understanding that here, day by day, you create great steps toward your own spiritual transformation, toward the growth of its potential, toward the revelation of your Divine essence. Is that not wonderful?
In any story the hero must unfold, understand something, learn something, take away lessons before reaching the finale.
So the river must fulfill its mission before it reaches the ocean. And there, in it, continue its story.
Do not dwell on thegoods you consider the highest reward for yourself. Just go. Day by day, step by step, smile by smile, inspiration by inspiration. Go warming the hearts of many who answer in your heart with unseen, divine love and warmth, which, warming the hearts of each of you, strives to recreate that divine energy that pours like a symphony into your space.
So be it. 🙏
A Lesson from the Spirit “Why do rivers gather into seas, and the seas flow int…
