OUR SPIRITUAL AND SACRED DESTINY IS TO LEARN TO GIVE: TO GIVE WITH ALL OUR HEART AND ALL OUR SOUL, TO GIVE IN LOVE AND KINDNESS AND PEACE. SUCH IS OUR SPIRITUAL DESTINY AND SUCH IS OUR SPIRITUAL PURPOSE. IN GIVING OF OURSELVES, WE FIND OURSELVES. IN THAT PROFOUND SPIRITUAL AND SACRED GIVING OF OURSELVES, WE AT LAST AWAKEN. AND WITH THIS AWAKENING, SO SHALL COME OUR SPIRITUAL HEALING OF OURSELVES, OF EACH OTHER, OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND OF OUR MOTHER EARTH, OUR HOLY GAIA. OUR DESTINY IS OUR PLANETS DESTINY. OUR SPIRITUAL PURPOSE IS TO LOVE ALL LIFE, FOR IN LOVING ALL LIFE, WE AT LAST LOVE AND FIND GOD.
A key question is this. Why should we give, whether of ourselves or of things we might possess, when it is apparently more to our advantage to take? After all, we would appear to gain so much by taking, and in a real sense actually lose so much by ‘indulging’ in giving. Certainly there can be advantage in giving when we are linked with others in some sort of mutual arrangement. But what of altruistic giving. Must it always be to some extent sacrificial? There is an answer to this, and it is a profound one. Perhaps the words ‘advantage’ and ‘disadvantage’ do not sit easily with the concept of altruistic giving, but rather we should consider the actual effects – the spiritual effects – of either taking or giving. When we take in any sort of selfish or self-serving way, we actually close ourselves down, close ourselves up, cut ourselves off from others, and from our own spiritual and true selves. When we give altruistically, we instead open ourselves up, open up our souls. In fact, when we selfishly take, we darken ourselves and diminish ourselves. When we give in any sort of altruistic way we open ourselves up to spiritual nourishment and growth. Giving is an explosion of energy. Taking is an implosion of energy. There might even be cases when individuals can be so addicted and dedicated to taking that they become spiritual ‘blackholes’. To give, on the other hand, is to be a radiant sun.
There is no obvious answer to this. But in actual fact, there is a profound reason. When we give ourselves, we open out our souls and auras, and by giving we actually grow. When we are selfish, we are actually closing in on ourselves. It is a difference between explosion and implosion.Perhaps those people who are powerful in terms of evil are like black holes.
GIVE AND TAKE
When we take, we close our souls. When we give, we open our souls.
It is easier to take than to give.
It is more lucrative too.
When we take, we reach out and grasp.
When we take, we draw in what we have grasped:
Then we hold it and rejoice in it and treasure it.
We profit by it, and so become mightier by it.
Then like a drug, we become enslaved to it.
Like a drug we become dependent upon it.
Like a drug we become consumed by it.
And thereby, we seek more of it.
It is easier to take than to give.
But it is easier to give than to give up taking,
When taking will not give up us.
When we take, we reach out and grasp.
And when we give?
We reach out.
When we take, and draw back in that which we have grasped,
So too do we draw back into our souls;
So too do we close tight our souls:
Shutting within our souls the gate that might lead us to the stars.
And when we give?
We reach out to Other.
When we give, we open up our souls.
When we give, we touch the key to our souls;
The key deep within us: that is our gateway to the heavens.
These insights, that were begun by Richard Dell back in the early 1990s, touch on all the most meaningful and indeed important religious and spiritual issues of our times. They are the same now as they were then. These Insights see religion just as firmly grounded in the Earth and in the stars as it is in the spirit and in the heavens. Richard sees no distinction between the material and spiritual realms. ALL is ONE. This comes through so clearly in these Insights, and that is why the environmental movement – our awakening at last to the needs of Gaia, of our planet – is as important as any spiritual quest, as important as all our need for healing, and is and must be an integral part of that holistic oneness that we must achieve in all that we do. It is also why issues such as Black Lives Matter are deeply spiritual. Richard sees inclusivity as being at the core of all our spiritual and religious endeavours. ALL is indeed ONE. And that mantra is the key to humanity’s future evolution: spiritual, social and political.