Life and Balance

A life lived in balance consists in harmonizing the spiritual and material aspects and in recognizing the benefits gained from lived experiences. The human being enjoys the riches of the Earth and is grateful for them, yet not for the important lessons learned from mistakes.

A sunset spent in the yellow light of gentle rays, beside a faithful love in which nothing is lacking, caresses the man and makes him better. The circumstances are favorable, and he utters sincere promises and begs for time to stand still.

When life smiles upon him, man thinks that God is an advocate of freedom, a divine promoter of beauty. The tyrannical image of a merciless and unkind god is false and was planted deep within man from the very Beginning. In his desperate moments, when he pleads for mercy and is condemned even by his own heart, it is not God who speaks through it.

Love sees everything and knows all our dramas. The tears that the world does not see and, if it were to see them, would shrug and not care, are counted and transformed into crowns with which divinity will adorn us later.

Sometimes I see myself laboring from dawn until evening in a glass factory, in conditions difficult to imagine, reliving fragments of memories from a past life. I sigh emotionally, as if I knew it were true, and I analyze the difference.

Back then, sweat soaked my shirt, and the skin of my face stung, yet my heart was immense and it loved. My palms were hardened by work, but at home the woman I returned to with my whole being was waiting for me. Her tenderness and the evenings spent in the garden colored my modest reality, through which two more treasures ran about, with innocent voices.

Today I understand that, as a man gathers more wealth, he grows poorer in love. This unbalanced reality of the family represents only a period of transition, in which the mind passes through a gray stage.

Young people beautify themselves zealously on the outside, yet their intention reminds me of wild beasts ready to tear apart any innocent fly that buzzes nearby. They seek to take revenge even on those who wish to make them happy.

Those who victimize themselves are cunning, arrogant, and frustrated, while the rich are the poorest. Those who put on airs of superiority in a crowded room do not know wisdom, and friends who laugh a lot and without reason are empty inside.

A sophisticated lifestyle distances people from essence and from the true reason for which they were born into form. Daily chaos opposes constancy. Turmoil appears when they become aware that life does not offer them what they desire, but what they are, and that something has kept them away from this primordial law.

The intelligence of the masses has been reduced to identifying clothing styles and the value of brands, and more recently, to nutrients and the superficial use of technological devices. Not even scientists think anymore about the purpose for which the wonderful world they wander through was created.

Stability Key

The spiritual crisis faced by the vast majority of people can be understood through an analogy. The soul that is born into the world is like a man who enters a grocery store to buy what he needs, but forgets the reason why he is there. Thus, he spends the rest of his days among the shelves, convinced that he has been condemned by God.

The assimilation of qualities discovered through trials that, at first glance, weakened him is the first sign of the awakening of consciousness, which grants him lucidity. The degree of maturity shown through the tempering of character and through detachment from people, places, and things indicates that the soul has surpassed the level of the animal man and is stepping into the higher spheres of existence.

Earth Honey doc. 2 reveals the balance between the spiritual and material worlds and emphasizes the importance of each.

Those who feel disturbed that the voice of the heart is difficult to digest will realize, through their difficulty in understanding, how far they have strayed from the essence of humanity, which is in the image of God, reducing their existence to what they see and bring to their mouths.

Thus, it is not matter itself that is important, but the benefits that the spirit, eager to experience both happiness and sorrow, draws through it.

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