The Source

The mystic who believes in a Source of All, a Divine, A Holy, says that each of us was once part of this One.  For Some religions we were part of God, or one in God.  Then God sent us forth to become human beings.  Because of this, our spiritual DNA always wants to return or stay connected, or find out about the Source.  The mystic would say Contemplation does this.  For some yes.

But this desire to know about our roots or stay in touch with our beginnings seems natural to me.  As human beings many of us have a special relationship with one parent or another.  We stay in touch.  Even adopted children get a yen to know the birth mother.  To be abused or disconnected from a parent is a real tragedy.  It is the unnaturalness of being disconnected from the person(s) from whom we came.  We are meant to be connected.  In the spiritual life, prayer, in whatever form, is the manner of connection with the One from whom we came.