{"id":3622,"date":"2014-09-22T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2014-09-21T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T23:12:17","slug":"in-the-spiritual-world-there-is-no-end-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2014\/09\/in-the-spiritual-world-there-is-no-end-in-sight.html","title":{"rendered":"In the Spiritual World There is No End in Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

What we need to succeed in the spiritual life is a heart that can see.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most people spend more time taking care of their physical bodies than their spiritual ones. They preoccupy themselves with insane appetites to try to keep the body alive instead of being concerned that their spirit is dying.<\/p>\n

The truth is\u2026 without our spiritual efforts, without working to see what we must see, there is no hope for us. So how do we\u00a0begin to have a new appreciation for spiritual exercise?<\/p>\n

Start over.<\/em> Be newly roused to become a spiritually self-working man or woman.<\/p>\n

Each time you will agree to see something about yourself, it produces within you the right initiative. Real spiritual exercises are created to help you wake up to the truth about you. Waking up is a means to seeing what it is that has you asleep. Seeing you\u2019re asleep is the beginning of your real spiritual struggle. Real spiritual work is not a means to any kind of end that you can envision. It is the means to moving you towards becoming conscious of what you are in relationship with. It is the means to becoming a different order of human being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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