Spiritual Growth (June 1993)

Continually create a new capacity in yourself for living (loving), by opening beyond what you were one minute before. Spiritual growth requires a conscious effort to live freshly. We willingly and necessarily allow for ongoing cycles of death and rebirth within us, while moving through the relative moment by moment event of living. Without this conscious effort, we tend to perpetually recreate the ‘us’ that has been (a “has-been”).

By observing Nature we recognize that it is quite natural to be transformed continually; that it is compatible with the living process to be presently (and persistently!) new, and that there need be no ‘effort’ to accomplish growth, only a releasing of what formerly was. This is Joy.

– Steve Ridley