The bees and berries are the pleasant and sweet things we generally seek - things we pursue, find, enjoy and in so doing, become oblivious to our fate. Usually, we don t see things this way. This is the problem with life. To cling to it is to embrace a mirage. It cannot provide us, in the end, with the peace and security we seek.
Spirituality is the time-honored method for dealing with life s troublesome nature.
This tool has been with us from the beginning, from a dim and distant past. A few million years ago, we became a thinking animal - we began to rely on thought more than any other faculty. We identified ourselves with these forms - thoughts, emotions, memories and that pervading sense of I we call ego. Being allied with the divine as all life is, we felt the invincibility at the core of our beings. We attributed it to our little selves, to the new symbolic consciousness we had developed.