Your Daily Imperfect Life Is Where The Magic Happens

Rather than escaping your current reality, start planting seeds to transform it from within

A lot of spirituality seems like giving up on life. Disappointed with the way things turn out, we turn inwards, hoping to find our heaven within by avoiding even looking at the hell without.

No matter how much inner peace you find, there’s still that nagging feeling that your outer world doesn’t match up. If you were really making spiritual progress, wouldn’t that reflect in worldly progress too?

There’s a quote I’d like to share with you by Rumi, a Sufi mystic:

“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”
— Rumi

Your physical life, as it appears to you now, is the ground which Rumi expects you to scrape and hoe. The sky of unspecified desire is like your spirit. It yearns to be fulfilled by love.

But that yearning for love is only a vague feeling. For it to become realized — made real — you must begin planting the seeds of love in each moment.

What are the seeds of love? What is our spiritual work?

Your thoughts are the seeds, and the work is to be ever watchful over your thoughts and experiences, watering the good seeds by feeding them more attention, and defeating the weeds by feeding them less.

Rumi advises us to know the difficulties of being human. Learn them, bring them into the light of consciousness. It is only by loving awareness that grief can be transmuted into love.