DEVELOPING WISDOM: WHAT IS THE PROCESS?
Article by Mary K DeLurgio
There are many religions and many teachers and many spiritual disciplines to inspire, guide and inform our spiritual journey - all are vehicles able to carry a process of developing the awareness that leads to Wisdom.
"Awareness of what?" we might ask. Although we have a longing to understand the meaning of human experience, we may not be able to name this longing. Usually when this need has not formed in our consciousness, we will find ourselves confused and feeling misdirected, trying to fill a void, looking for an un-named something.
At other times we seek out life lessons found in books, religions, teachers, literature, art. Sometimes we choose a specific belief system within a religion to guide us. Sometimes we rely upon a philosophy. Sometimes, in surprising and unexpected ways, our insights lead us into deep personal experiences and we draw upon their meaning for guidance.
But whatever the path chosen for our journey toward Wisdom, we must create a place within ourselves for Wisdom to emerge. To seek the inner truth of human experience we must accept our life and ourselves such as they are. We must be willing take responsibility for what we believe, how we think about and relate to others, how we act upon our feelings and what the consequences of our reality are. Without this attitude of open self-examination, we find ourselves serving the needs of our self-protecting ego instead of feeding our spiritual hunger. Honest self-acceptance and personal inquiry open up the space for inner Wisdom to develop and nourish the process of spiritual formation.
Having made a commitment to self-disclosure and humility and by examining our pride and admitting our imperfect choices, we have invited discernment and are prepared for our journey. The wisdom of spiritual awareness will develop over time as meaning builds upon previous meaning, deepening insight builds upon previous insight. Now we will find ourselves on a life-long path that seeks truth and meaning.
This path may b! e follow ed within a spiritual practice such as prayer or meditation or worship, or the expansion of meaning may be carried within a promise to live in the present moment as we take our guidance from that moment. All intentions may be at work. But in order for spiritual consciousness to evolve, for Wisdom to deepen, we must make every effort to clear away personal attitudes that obstruct its process.
About the AuthorMary K DeLurgio, MFT
Trusting the emerging process of inner wisdom and its schedule for insight and inspiration was a 25 year project completed now as Our Journey to the Sky - A Guide to the process of Spiritual Formation. During this extended period, Mary K DeLurgio led hundreds of personal journal keeping, self exploration workshops and classes. Observing the life process of these participants as well as her own has led to deep insight into the process of spiritual evolution.
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