Reflections

Trusting the Process Anyone who has pursued a long-term goal would acknowledge the universal truth that the journey is more important than the destination. The need to fall in love with the process, and to trust it entirely, should take hold of one's focus far more than the end goal.  This law of life is more applicable to the spiritual journey than it is to anything else. The necessity of focussing on the process of the spiritual pursuit is so paramount, that it has been described by the Promised Messiah (as) as "the only true prayer".   He writes: "...The only true prayer of man is to seek the straight path leading to God. For, to attain any objective, it is the natural law that those means should be acquired through which the goal is achieved. This is the natural rule that God has laid down in respect of achieving every objective: The means that are necessary for securing it should be attained and the ways by which the goal can be achieved should be adopted."

Increase Your Need "The mouse-soul is nothing but a nibbler. To the mouse is given a mind proportionate to its need, for without need, the All-Powerful doesn't give anything to anyone. Need, then, is the net for all things that exist: A person has tools in proportion to his need. So quickly, increase your need, needy one, that the sea of abundance may surge up in loving-kindness." - Rumi  This subtle truth about the practice of God is repeatedly mentioned in various contexts by the Promised Messiah (as). He writes about it with such conviction that it becomes clear that these statements are coming from a place of abundant experience. There remains no mystery or probability about it--it is a fact that God's mercy is such that it descends when and where there is a need for it. He writes in one place: "This is the same attribute that, at times, is roused to take care of the physical needs of the famine-stricken and pours down the rain of mercy upon parched land; and