Prior To Investigation

You go to a baseball game or a ballet for the first time.  You have no prior experience of either, nor have you studied about them.  You say, "Not for me."  You felt no connection or pleasure.  But then you run across someone or some writing in social media that begin to explain the "art" of the event you dismissed in your one time of attendance.  You begin to understand, in reading, how baseball or ballet might connect to your life.  You might try hitting a baseball or attempting ballet and find out how difficult it is to do.  You might go back to the game or ballet now, and something has changed.  You begin to experience a connection, even a pleasure with the experience of being there, not just attending, but entering into the action and art of the event.  You go again.  You go a few times, and one day you hear yourself say, "I love ballet," or "I love baseball."  What changed?  Ballet is ballet and baseball is baseball.  What expanded is you.  You realized you always had the capacity to connect in an expansive way with these art forms.  All you lacked was investigation and subsequent experience.  For many, it is the same with God.  "Not for me," someone says, with no prior investigation.  They attended church, synagogue, temple, Islamic center, and made no connection.  They did not study it in its spiritual meaning, or depth.  They were told some things about law, dogma, and rules.  Baseball has all of those, but no one falls in love with baseball because of its rules.  I don't take seriously opinions prior to investigation.  Nor do I debate.  A pity someone does not love baseball.  I have a ways to go with soccer, but I am working on it.