Reaching For The Light ... p. 111

“… Sir, give me this water …”

— St. John 4:15

King James Version of the Bible

THE ENLIGHTENED 
SOUL … p. 111

All else aside, we have a moral obligation to provide for our own well-being, physical and spiritual. Herein lies the rub: Familiar to most is the lifelong pursuit of earning a living, in itself both necessary and laudable. Much less so, however, are we given over to the needs of the soul, our ‘other,’ spiritual being.

Unbeknownst to many, it is this divine inner self that must, at the very least, be given equal time and study to that spent in the effort to earn a living.

The physical and spiritual aspects of life, while separate are nonetheless interdependent. If we are to know harmony of mind, body and soul, the incessant workings of the mind must give way in part to the enlightened soul. In the doing we become a changed person, with a new-found sense of empowerment and inner peace.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Reaching For The Light ... p. 110

“… bring glad tidings of good things! ”

— Romans 10:15

King James Version of the Bible

PRAYER … p. 110

Spirituality is an expression of the soul: God within. How to become one with this, our inner self, becomes the question central to our well-being. To our own good fortune the answer is ever before us: We have but to surrender ourself to God in prayer.

Prayer is self-effacing communion with God. Here, thoughts of the mind lose themselves in our divinely spiritual self, our very being suffused with Love: Love of God and Love of our fellow-man. Such is man’s natural state. 

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Reaching For The Light ... p. 109

“… What shall we do, 

that we might work 

the works of God?”

— St. John 6:28

King James Version of the Bible

KNOWING GOD … p. 109

Believing them to be separate and distinct, we speak of “God’s will,” as in the oft-quoted Lord’s Prayer: “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,” and of “human will,” the latter being a product of the mind — deliberate thought and action.

God’s will is that divinely primordial force governing the laws of the universe, of nature and of mankind. The exercise of human will, absent of divine influence, is little more than wishful thinking. When, however, our will is not a manifestation of personal preference, but instead, the divine emanation of human spirit, human will becomes one with God’s will. Such is made possible when thought transcends worldly concerns by going beyond belief and beyond faith to that of KNOWING God lives in us and we in Him. It is this purity of thought, of humble selflessness and love of others — in essence, harmony of Being — that transforms us, whereby our will “in earth” becomes one with God’s will “in heaven.” 

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Reaching For The Light ... p. 108

“… they drank 

of that spiritual Rock 

that followed them …”

— I Corinthians 10:4

King James Version of the Bible

SPIRITUAL INSIGHT … p. 108

Midst the frenzy of materialism that defines much of our life we rely for the most part upon five familiar senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Within these confines we live out our lives in a never-ending effusion of goods and services, all the while longing for more to life. And so there is, in two lesser known senses: intuition and understanding. When brought into play they are, within themselves, no less than our saving grace.

Intuition we know to be spiritual insight founded on Truth. Understanding, which follows upon and is indeed a concomitant of intuition, is acknowledgement of that Truth. These combined faculties are a phenomenon common to all. How to put it to use in our daily life becomes the question. The answer, ever the same, is to go within, to rediscover our true inner self; our God-given Goodness and Love. Thus, in selfless humility, may we let others be witness to our own vulnerability. Thus too, in the stillness of mind and body, do we intuitively come to know and to understand another’s true inner self, and with it, brotherly love. 

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Reaching For The Light ... p. 107

LIFE’S EVERLASTING 

QUANDARY … p. 107

Were it otherwise, we might find life to be less of a quandary. As it is, however, we humans are a duality, made-up of a mortal body and a spiritually immortal inner self. To our great misfortune, mankind has all but lost sight of its God-given spirituality in favour of an unrelenting pursuit of materialism.

The pleasures of materialism we know to be short-lived at best. Conversely, those emanating from the Light of the soul endure forever. When nurtured, the soul — that is to say, becoming one with God in all that we say and do — is that which gives us our humanity.
— Garry D. Kilbourn

Reaching For The Light ... p. 106

SPIRIT and 

MATTER … p. 106

In honouring the age-old admonition to “Know Thyself,” we come to learn of the very real and discernible correlation between Spirit and Matter: as devotion to one increases, the other suffers a like decrease. And so it is as we reconnect with our inborn Spiritual nature, we lose sight of heedless mind-driven materialism. So it is too that the ground we stand on becomes ever firmer as we ascend our Spiritual path, ever closer to knowing our true inner self; to God within. — Garry D. Kilbourn

Reaching For The Light ... p. 105

ALLOWING OTHERS TO BE THEMSELVES … p. 105

We all know moments of disquiet in our personal relationships, be it family or otherwise, when things don’t go our way. Were we to go within and reflect on the matter, we could but conclude in all honesty that things are not always meant to go our way. Just as we are quick to rightfully assert our own individuality, so must we honour this in others. In so doing we achieve a hitherto unknown magnanimity of character, in essence a transformation to a higher, spiritually enlightened mode of thought. We instinctively know it is our moral duty to allow others to be themselves.

As is ever the case when we seek the Truth, Selflessness and Humility obtain. Truth’s revelation both frees and uplifts us: Life becomes so much more worthwhile.

— Garry D. Kilbourn