Outgrow the Ego - Patrick Drysdale

We have to realize that we have our original center in God and that without Him, we couldn’t exist. Somewhere along the way, though, we made a terrible mistake and displaced this divine center with a sense of a separate me and acted from that standpoint instead of our original one, thereby obscuring God as our natural center.

The purpose of our life is to undermine this unnatural centre and re-establish contact with the divine. We don’t really live until we understand that truth is the missing place from our humanity and everyone on earth is seeking it but doesn’t know it. Spirituality has been so suppressed that its negative side has surfaced as the most outrageous addictions and pre-occupations: Making money, love affairs, drugs, alcoholism, gambling, racing, anything that produces an intense sensation is accepted as a substitute but they’ll never satisfy. The spirit wants union with truth, not shallow amusements.

It’s important to remember that recovering this natural center doesn’t obliterate our humanity. It completes it. Development in humans is entirely spiritual and achieving our full potential means returning to our original unity with God, our natural center. This should be our first goal in life.

© "Times of India" (dated October 9, 2005). Reprinted with permission.

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