Whatever Gets You Through The Night

Early in my spiritual studies, my fellow students and I often asked our teacher for advice on the right spiritual practice. Her reply was, “Whatever gets you through the night.” She urged us to remain open and fluid in allowing those practices, whether traditional or esoteric, to find us as much as we sought them. To this day, I am deeply grateful to have been encouraged to explore with such permissive depth and breadth.

Perhaps you’ve traveled long and winding roads to find your current spiritual path and practice. Many people I've met in the centers, churches and forums I’ve ministered arrived because it supported their current curiosities or belief. As the God of their understanding evolved, the more fluid their choice of community and practice became. And with this deepening rests a valuable opportunity - blessing whatever we have exited.

I was judgmental of the religion of my youth, unskilled in crediting that path with helping me better formulate my critical thinking and refining my understanding that to grow requires to outgrow. I became familiar with the term "divine discontent," the inner propulsion that heightens our urging for greater vistas beyond the familiar. I learned to love my past and embrace the belief that all paths up the mountain are valid

Metaphysician Ernest Holmes encouraged, “What we must avoid is the confusion which arises from a belief in final revelations, from the belief that all truth is at last discovered, or that some one person or some one system of thought has delivered the last word. There are no finalities in any science, any philosophy, or any religion.”

The concept of no finalities prompts us to remain open at the top. It gives us infinite choices to love and consciously partner with whatever gets us through the mysteries and uncertainties of our collective nights.