NO WRONG WAY TO GROW SPIRITUALLY

I am grateful that I early-on realized that there is the active way to spiritual awareness or the contemplative way. I use both, or both use me, and Eknath Easwaran in his "Words to Live By" describes it well:

We require both the active and the contemplative ways. They are phases of a single rhythm like the pulsing of the heart, the in-drawing and letting go of breath, the ebb and flow of the tides. So we go deep, turned inwards in meditation to consolidate our vital energy, and then with greater love and wisdom we come out into the family, the community, the world. Without action, we lack opportunities for changing our old ways, and we increase our self-will rather than lessen it; without contemplation, we lack the strength to change and are blown about by our conditioning.

That comforts me still.

Thank you.