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Wisdom Quote
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hardworking farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seed into God.
*Meister Eckhart
What could begin to deny the self, if there were not something in man different from the self?
*William Law
*Quotes from Aldous Huxley. The Perennial Philosophy.
Wisdom Story
A man said to a spiritual Teacher, "I want to be your disciple?"
"What is it you want from being my disciple?" inquired the Master.
The man replied, "To be spiritually enlightened."
"Okay," said the Master, "I will be your Teacher."
Asked the man, "And when, Master, will I know I am enlightened?"
Came the answer, "When you know the I that wants the you that you want enlightened to be enlightened."
*Brian K. Wilcox
Comments
There must be God-Within for anyone to aspire to the experience of God-Within. All spiritual aspiration and practice arises from God-Within, even when stimulated by outer circumstances and persons.
This God-Within is a Potency we can call the God-Seed. The fruition of the God-Seed is a spiritually-organic process like the natural processes of a seed being nurtured to unfold its innate potential. Indeed, the whole plant is already in-potential within the seed.
The chief aim of religion and spirituality is stimulation of God-Within. Truly, religion is spiritual only when evidencing that it stimulates God-Within. The process of spirituality is the act of stimulating the innate God-ing, or God-Seed, inside each of us, and a Love ~ for Love is God-ing, and God-Within ~ that is all in Sacred Communion. The "Within" is related to the absolute Love wherein there is no within or without.
Spiritual aspiration and practice corresponds to God-Within. This means the fruit will be a true reflection outward of the God-Seed. The fruit always corresponds to the aspiration and practice.
The practices of stimulation are among the Means of Grace, which is, absolutely, Means of God-Within, of Life. This stimulation is nurturing the innate seeds of the God-Life, fully or largely latent in us until receiving the Light of Grace within an intentional and on-going process of evocation. The Holy Spirit is the One who evokes, while the Word is the Potency of the God-Seed and its infinite potential manifestations.
Spiritual Exercise
How do you see the Word manifesting through you according to your person and spiritual gifts?
Brian will respond to requests pertaining to seeking a Spiritual Mentor. He offers retreats, workshops, and classes in such subjects as Contemplative Prayer (he trains in Visualized Praying, Centering Prayer, Christian Meditation, The Jesus Prayer, ...); Contemplative Living; A Spiritual Understanding of the Lord's Prayer; Philippians and Spiritual Community; Spiritual Growth From Matter to Spirit; Spiritual Use of the Scripture.
See any major on-line bookseller for his book An Ache for Union.
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