A major goal of true spirituality is an ability to experience the awe and wonder of the world and continually to grow in amazement.

A major goal of true spirituality is an ability to experience the awe and wonder of the world and continually to grow in that amazement.  Meditation practice, as many seekers have discovered, can be quite helpful in fostering this attitude.  Rather than seeking God as some sort of object, meditation teaches us to embody God's vision; that is, to look at the world through the eyes of wide-open, expansive love.  When we approach the world from the perspective of the spacious mind of God, we are then able to marvel as an endless variety of thoughts, feelings and sensations arise spontaneously out of that spaciousness, like echoes having no original sound as their source!  For the source of those echoing love-words is a God who is forever lost in bliss on account of the intense beauty of the world.

Photo: Male cones of an Englemann Spruce; Lion Lakes, Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; June 17, 2013