The Coma

 Life without a spiritual practice is a bit like living in a coma.  You are alive, but a bit out of touch and not able to move around.  You are hardly functional, though breathing.  Call it the spiritual coma, and I have been there.  The Power, The Light, God, is right here but I am not so much right here.  I am disconnected or having a bad connection with reality.  But the coma is also a way, rather minimal way, to keep us going until we can wake up and decide we want to live a fuller life. Of course, the coma can end in death too.  Think of addiction and recovery.  People need that drink to stay alive, though a minimal life, until one day, hopefully, they wake up and decide to live.  That is life with a spiritual path and practice.  A workaholic can be living in a coma sort of life.  Fear can be like a coma, as can the desire for more and more of anything.  Let go and wake up is something I try to do on a daily basis.