How do we know that we are following the right path? How do we know when we are in love? I'd say the answer to both questions are very similar. It's an instinctive thing, somewhere, deep down, past all the desire for love, or spiritual centredness, or a feeling of connection, somewhere in the pit of our belly, we know if something is right or not. It's just so hard to listen to that voice embedded deep down inside there.
We wonder whether it's telling us one thing, or is it perhaps trying to say entirely the opposite? I think all we can do is listen, and hope for those few times of clarity, when we hear it clearly without distractions. Does the Holy Spirit create those moments of clarity? Or is it the voice we hear at those times? Is it ultimately our own voice, or the voice of something other? And do even the ideas of self and other make any sense during these moments?
I've got my own views, but I'm still not sure I know how to explain exactly what they are.
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