Impossible Yearning

 

 

 

IMPOSSIBLE YEARNING

Copyright 2021 Don Ray

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Is the deep Unity and Communion to which the human spirit is called fundamentally not realizable on this earth? 

 We exist in our isolated shells of consciousness, our severely limited conscious experience chained to physical dictates and sensations.  From this constrained viewpoint we then make our clumsy and generally unrecognized stabs at interpersonal communion and unity, these stabs often as not dictated by sex drives or survival instincts, whether social or physical. The results are almost always breakups, separations, rejections, boredom, divorces, cold indifference, divorce, affairs, or murder.

We see the occasional saint or prophet or messiah who for a time enthralls the masses and sets loose a momentary trend of peace and love, but at the drop of a hat the resulting institutions and concomitant distortions lead to war or jihad or schisms or corruption.

The party breaks out in gunfire, the family sits in stony silence, the society collapses into vigilante  violence.

An evidence-based assessment of history and sociology would well conclude that our hearts are pulled toward a Unity that while it may appear to flicker for a moment in history and relationships and nations, it never quite ignites to attain a sustainable combustion.  

We would do well to be realistic about this, not expecting too much of the peace talks, the marriage, the date, or the new preacher. We would do well to accept the tease of warmth from the flickering embers of Communion, but not take them too seriously, and certainly not rely on them. 

But conversely we should not deny our longing for Unity and Communion, in whatever guise we may title it.  We should fully accept our need and the hunger and the emptiness.  We should pursue the sting of that driving hunger with laser like focus.   But we should look not to party or people or the public.  We should look to Source, the Source of the longing and the Source of fulfillment.  We should take time from the relationships and activities that provide only momentary tastes of Communion and Unity and immerse in the gift of Deep Communion and eternal Unity that promise to embrace and endure, Communion and Unity real and foundational, abiding when the prophet is charlatan, the friends are fickle, the spouse unfaithful.