A Lesson from the Spirit

They show a black cave. Its walls seem to weep.

“You hide your spirituality, fearing it will be stolen, that someone will borrow something from you. But there is nothing to fear there. Because the very moment you reason about it from fear, you begin to lose it yourself, piece by piece, dropping the accumulations you have in your spirituality.
— Tell me more.
— When you are afraid to cross the line and go out into the wide world, you act ambiguously: trying to know, and at the same time stepping back, afraid of being noticed, of being seen, of being needed by someone. When you prepare for an encounter with other people or with the world like that, you can lose the skills you’ve developed, your abilities, your confidence — not because someone willingly took them from you, but because you took them from yourself.
Fear of loss is already loss. And from that moment you must move not simply forward or backward. You must stop to understand what is happening, to cultivate that fear within yourself, subordinating it to your will, to your approval and acceptance of the space that surrounds you and the souls who rely on you, calling for help.
Your abilities are skills — life-honed skills. Some arrive at them earlier, some later, and some do not wish to at all. Everything here is the lawfulness of your talent. What is talent? To be good at something, and to do it with soul, with full desire and inspiration.
And then even the smallest trifle will become a great discovery for many. The talent to love, the talent to forgive and accept, the talent to smile at another when your heart is sad, the talent to embrace the world as uncorrupted child’s eyes see it.
So do not be afraid to leave your shelter, the cave you built for yourself and around yourself like a monument to an unyielding life position. Go out and show the world that spiritual component that ignites inside you with a deep feeling of love, hope, and all-acceptance. And where you give your warmth, you will see light in your own temple.”