What
is life, other than a perpetual resurrection?
Easter is about endings and beginnings. It is about love
overcoming hate, hope prevailing over despair, and life triumphing over death.
Easter celebrates the fact that the spirit of life is indestructible. As I have
said more than once before, we are forever part of life’s self-expression, that
is, livingness, so we can never cease to be. Yes, we will change form and
vanish from view, but we---that is, the spirit of life in us, as us---can
never cease to be. We cannot be separated from life. We cannot be less than
life.
The end of every day is a ‘death’ of sorts. It is gone
forever. Now, that is a very good thing, for if it were not to happen there
could be no tomorrow. Every new day is a rising of sorts. But it’s even deeper
than that. Every new moment is a new beginning---a resurrection of life. We
must constantly ‘die’ and ‘rise again’ into newness of life. Most
importantly, we must die to self each moment of the day if we wish to be free
from the bondage of self.
Here are some wonderful words from Dr Harry Gaze, minister,
lecturer and world traveller, who was a pioneer in the field of applied psychology ('constructive psychology', in his words):
True living is a perpetual resurrection, a constant
awakening and arising to the increased livingness of today. Every day is Easter
to the one who is initiated into the teachings of the new life. The more that
we include within the area of our attention, of the good, the true and the
beautiful, the more we extend our consciousness. This extension of
consciousness is a richer, fuller livingness.
Happy Easter!
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