Spiritual work is the quest for the realization of consummate primordial wholeness. That is to say, to not be realized is to seem to be not-whole, fragmented or, worse than simply fragmented … missing a few pieces. Many people may relate to a special quality possessed by mothers. They are usually the very best finders. When we were searching and searching for a lost item of some kind, and becoming very frustrated, we would call out to our mother in desperation. She would say, “Did you look in the clothes hamper?” or, “Did you look in your school backpack?” If still you could not find the item, she would find it herself, often right where you had previously looked and right where it was supposed to be. Finding the missing ontological pieces whose apparent absence seem to sabotage our realization can have a similar resolution. Often, everything was right where it was supposed to be, but not always. Continue reading →