perspective on action vs inaction

[Sacred Fool]

Gee, none transitioned the last time so it doesn't seem like the current strategies are working.

 
If the requirement for graduation was to able to dribble a basketball, then most people would have some chance of success because they would have seen it done on TV, if not have done so themselves at some point.  But the issue here is about spiritual maturity, about perceiving the Sacred within self and sharing this outwardly, and we don't see this on TV--or anywhere else--very often.  Our dominant cultural practices simply don't prepare us to find our own deep truth within and dedicate our being in that direction--which is to say: polarise our spiritual essence.  And so helpful onlookers, who would not do our learning for us, can offer us conceptual clarification, but it is up to us, not them, to polish our mirrors and enable our lights to burn more brightly that we may cast a bit more light in this shadow-land.