A Key

C. S. Lewis gave me this idea in his book, The Problem of Pain.  Think of your spiritual center or soul as a key.  You have a specifically shaped key for a lock that will open the door into a fullness of life to which you are called.  Everyone has a different shaped key, but the door for each leads to their fullness.  Become what you are in your truest self.  The problem is that we all try to reshape our key or place the key into a door that will simply not unlock.  We remain outside ourselves living a life that seeks "more" to fulfill us, a life of frustration, alienation, loneliness, and a lot of negative energy. Meditation, or some spiritual practice that fits each person, allows unto discover the key, and then begin to find the door and the lock to the door that leads to a life of "all" rather than a life of "more."  I have found it so in mediations, the experience of nature in sunsets and sunrises, quiet rains, walks on trails, and city streets with small shops, and bookstores.  It is in how I look when I have a quiet mind.