Do we allow Life to bring us back to life?

       

True spirituality engages with life. I am suspicious of any path that despises the world and devalues the senses. The senses have their functions. But, they are not ends in themselves but means to  higher levels of experience. Accordingly, to be fully human is to be divine. 

       
Hence, if we want to grow spiritually, we have to be come back to our senses. We have to see clearly, listen attentively, taste slowly and feel intensely. They are doorways to a deeper experience of life.

         
Take for an example, water. Is it absurd to be amazed at how water flows? How it tastes? How it is wet? How it escapes from our hands as it washes away the dirt? Do we allow ourselves to be captivated by it? As we touch water, do we allow water to touch us?

       
Do we allow life to touch us? To see us? To listen to us? To taste us? 

       
Do we allow Life to bring us back to life?