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Such a challenge can be met more readily if the mind understands where the individual
stands in the vast cycle of being — not only where he or she stands as an individual, but
where humanity as a whole and his or her culture stand. Knowing where one stands not
only illumines the path just ahead; it also helps one understand how this position has been
reached and therefore how the fear of change can be overcome most logically and
consistently.
To willingly and affirmatively accept one's position in the largest whole to which one
can deeply feel one belongs, to allow the power of the Movement of Wholeness to drive
one step by step — this is the meaning of spiritual living. No step can be missed, however
difficult it may seem. Every step is inherently difficult because it means renouncing a
lesser form of stability in order to gain a greater realization of Wholeness. In the process,
an experience of instability must be met — with courage as well as faith.
Probably the majority of human beings need to believe in a personal God to sustain
such a faith. God is the divine Father or Mother for whoever still functions mainly at the
biological level of wholeness and consciousness. For the person whose relative sense of
isolation seeks solace, God is the supreme and utterly dependable "Thou" to Whom the
distraught "I" may turn for reassurance and inner strength. If a conscious and autonomous
individual can respond to the idea of a total affirmation of being throughout the vast cyclic
process of the Movement of Wholeness — is able to experience Wholeness as a dynamic
Presence in all there is and can ever be — the realization that one belongs to a far-reaching
greater Whole in whose field of existence one lives, moves, and has one's being can be a
profoundly sustaining as well as enlightening factor in the inner life.
In that greater Whole the individuals who see themselves also as individualized
wholes — lesser wholes — can accept their function "in the Name of" Wholeness. The
individual is Wholeness operating within a definite, and therefore finite, field of activity
and consciousness. The individual is his or her dharma or position and function within the
greater whole; but he or she is also Wholeness operating in and through this particular
position or stage of the great cycle of being. The individual is not only an efficient
performer of a definite (thus finite) role in the field of activity of the greater whole; in and
through the individual as performer, Wholeness (or "beingness") is affirming itself in a
particular mode.
To the conscious and enlightened performer, the performance is but one fleeting phase
in the cyclic Movement of Wholeness. He or she is that phase, yet more than that phase
because the all-inclusive reality of being is the rhythmic Movement — and the performer
is aware of this. The performer is the moving, and in and through the performance, the
performing. To use a musical metaphor, the person is not only a bassoonist playing a Csharp
written in the score of a symphony, but also "Music" being performed in terms of
the culture's approach to it. This cultural approach, in turn, represents one of the many
ways in which "Music" cyclically makes use of sounds.
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