Spiritual people often have more intellectual understanding of spirituality than most folks. And this can be a disadvantage. Because it’s easy to get lost in the clouds, instead of being real with yourself in inquiry. What I mean by this is that it’s tempting for spiritual people to rely on intellectual concepts that they have learned–and spiritual sound bites–to answer the questions of inquiry.
It hurts to hurt another human being. It hurts to hurt anything. That’s why the mind needs lots of reasons, and justifications, and complicated logics to do something mean. It just doesn’t come naturally.
My amends may or may not be helpful to the other person but, if I do them with integrity, they are helpful for me. They allow me to hear myself unambiguously, with a witness, admitting that I was hurtful and don’t really want to be that way. It often really gets through to my tricky ego when I do this.
These emotions seem to strike out of the blue. As if there were a cruel God out there playing tricks on us. But if you look a little closer, you may find that these emotions don’t just come from nowhere.
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