The Essence of Spiritual Work

When faced with a  life crisis, …it does not seem like ‘Spiritual’ work.  Spiritual work is pictured as studying a textbook, looking at a picture of a guru, and singing songs.  Then an acute catastrophe occurs, and the spiritual work is bypassed.  It then resumes after all the various emergencies and tasks in one’s life have been handled.

It is as though we do not really see the essence of spiritual work.  We do not see that the spiritual work brings up these acute crises, brings us into them and that they are an opportunity.  This is where the spiritual work is happening.  The other was preparation, gathering of information and experience, deciding on direction, and accumulating spiritual knowledge. Then suddenly comes the moment of Truth, the time to do it.

Healing and Recovery, Ch. 8, pg. 249-250