Heart Entering

 As is said, you can leave Egypt with your feet, but you cannot enter the Promised Land but with your Heart.  So it is that many a person says, “I am leaving the world,” to take up a spiritual, meditation practice.  They walk away to live alone, become a hermit, monk, spend more time in some quiet place of silence and solitude, but this is all about moving away in a spacial sense.  You cannot walk into Love, Ultimate Reality, Nirvana, Non-Duality.  You must honestly face your inner self with its masks, role-playing in fantasy, and other protective devices that served you in the “world.”  Patience, fortitude, trust.  The process will embarrass you, and humiliate you, before it humbles you.  Many will not wait for the humbling aspect.  Your futility and nothingness.  If you stay with the unveiling of your false self, your self-invention, you will face your nothingness.  And then?  You will be awakened.  No wonder it is called “Fear of the Lord.”