One Apple A Day #439 - Integration
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."
According to the gospels, the one above is the sentence that Jesus used to answer to someone asking if it was lawful for Jews to pay taxes to Roman's empire.
Where I grew up, this sentence was often used to explain that spirituality and reality are two different worlds. On one side the real world, made of matter, in which we live. And above that the realm of the soul.
I thought spirituality was a journey of elevation.
And that same thought pushed me away from any spiritual work for a very long time. I couldn't handle that fracture anymore. I couldn't understand the kind of spiritual schizophrenia of people praying for love and acting with hate.
It took me years, a lot of falls and some inspired teachers to find my way.
Now I know that my spiritual journey is one of integration.
“Or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts." ― T S Eliot, Four Quartets