Spiritual Awakening

Spiritual Awakening

I have been thinking about what it means to be spiritually
awake and have not yet figured out what that means. I have been
going from one Internet site after another looking for information
that will explain exactly what spiritual awakening is all about.

The closest I came to finding an answer talked about being a
Christian and all that has to it. But, being a Christian is only a very
small part of what it means to be spiritually awake. One site talked
about the attributes of a spiritually awake person in a paper titled
“The Purpose of Life is Spiritual Growth”. I can agree with this
statement but still it is only a title to a paper. Within the paper it
gives a statement about the fact that there are two types of people
in this world. One is the materialist minded person and the other is
the spiritually minded person. The paper says that a person with a
“materialistic mind is greedy, selfish, competitive, cold hearted,
deceitful, unintelligent, close-minded, ill mannered, unfriendly,
easily addicted, overly emotional, easily angered, revengeful,
vicious, barbaric, inhumane and war like. They are destructive
through their thoughts, words and actions”. The paper goes on to
describe the “spiritually minded person as being generous, kind,
helpful, cooperative, loving, forgiving, caring, considerate,
compassionate, patient, calm, honest, intelligent, logical, open-
minded, friendly and peaceful. They are constructive through their
thoughts, words and actions”.

How many of you would describe your self as being a
materialistic person with all the characteristic of that kind of a
person? Very few of you I’m sure, but do you not display those
kinds of attributes from time to time? You could say, “I’m only
normal” and you are. We all present to the world both kinds of
mannerisms and we are both materialistic and spiritual people.
Some of us believe that we are more spiritual than the other, and
that’s OK.

Now, what can we do to become totally spiritually awake?
Well, I think that the description above of the spiritual minded
person tells all. We can be that kind, generous and loving person
we claim to be 24/7. It only takes a little mindfulness to make it
so. Keeping in mind those attribute that make us a spiritual person.

Ok, you are a spiritual person, so what do you do to prove it?
Do you work with the sick and dying? Do you go to church and
pray for all the non-Christians in this world? Maybe there are
other things you do that you believe proves that you are a
spiritually awakened person. Or, maybe you just think about all
that without doing anything… Maybe…

I want to be a totally awaken spiritual person and I want you to
awaken also. We can change this world from being totally
materialistic to be spiritually oriented world in 2012. 2012 will be
a year of change, a transitional world into the higher aspects of the
spiritual life. You and I can be apart of that. We only have to
make up our minds to be so by promoting to the world that we are
indeed a spiritually awaken person.