The Spiritual Path
a step by step guide to spiritual life in the modern world
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If I manage, for example, to be alone for an hour, contemplating my solitude without flinching, I realize that, whatever, I am somewhere, that I exist independently of whether or not I am accepted by others. Which means I am beyond the edge, I have embraced a territory that is mine, free of the need to feel. At this point I can truly be for others, wholly and in control of myself, and if I am for others “I am the others”, and I can build something which no longer has anything to do with the need to feel. This is exactly what we’re striving for. To become accustomed to the fact that it is not necessary to following certainties, that there’s no point trying to satisfy our greatest need simply by creating other needs, and moving from one identification to another. At the bottom of all our emptiness is the need to be, the need to express ourselves fully. We can achieve this only if we stop identifying with something else. By identifying ourselves, we continue to renew the illusion of that which doesn’t live in the present and cannot live in the future, because the future… doesn’t exist. How difficult it is to understand that security kills the passion for life! But how important it is to understand it. It’s indispensable. It’s vital. Attempting to find solid ground to walk on, on which to build our future with meticulous care, to shun the unknown because we’re too attached to the known… all these things prevent the free flow of existence and inexorably increase the fears that devour us. No-one can overcome fear by self-protection. When we discover a new way of protecting ourselves from thieves, they quickly learn how to break into our illusion. When we think we’ve achieved something that makes us feel stronger and more certain of ourselves, life always holds something in store that brings our castle of sand tumbling down. We can build houses to withstand earthquakes, but we can’t feel safe in them, because yesterday’s earthquake isn’t the same as tomorrow’s, which will be our “here and now” in just a moment. So let’s free ourselves from the slavery of security, which is nothing more than an illusion. Let’s do it now, not tomorrow, because the future doesn’t exist, and we don’t know how long we really have to live. To live a real life. To be! Solitude frightens us, because it makes us insecure. Conscious solitude dissipates fear of the future, anchoring us to the solidity of the moment, allowing us to contemplate our “here and now” in freedom. To do so we need to find the courage to look at the truth for once. To stop and look. Emptying ourselves of considerations, opinions, conditioned beliefs and weak faiths created to cover fear, the first great reality of all human beings. We are dismayed at the vastness of the universe, of natural laws that we don’t understand for the most part or are incapable of controlling. We fear all this because we have no knowledge of it and perceive it instinctively as a threat. We fear what we can’t govern. So we attempt to exorcise the majesty of life through the science, religion, ideologies, opinions and theories we want to believe in blindly, to give us the impression of knowing, of power, of control.
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Fundamentally, The Spiritual Path is a practical book; a handbook written to clearly guide us along a path that can be followed by any seeker who has ever truly wondered about the meaning of life. It is not a religious text or a philosophical study and there is no attempt to define Truth, or confine Truth within the limits of a specific faith, doctrine or ideology. On the contrary, the book only emphasizes a very real possibility of comprehending the meaning of life, and armed with determination, desire and intellectual honesty encourages us to embark on our own search. Practical, concrete and to the point, The Spiritual Path is a book for our times; a book of reflection and wisdom, written with sincerity and simplicity. It is a book about the Search; or more accurately, the Inner Search, where "Inner" means "our true Self", the profound and beautiful essence that we have rarely been encouraged to recognize or express; that intimate and true nature that we perceive as a possibility, but from which - incapable as we are of entering into communion with our true Self - we feel removed. Many of us amidst the precariousness of life feel a sense of emptiness and incompleteness, and we are left with only our loneliness and fear. The Spiritual Path is a book written for those who do not want to waste time and are tired of being taken for a ride. The authors give a truly alternative point of view on how to seriously start on the path of inner development today, and offer many invaluable practical suggestions to obtain verifiable results in our daily life.
About the Author
For thirty years Walter Ferrero and Andrea Di Terlizzi have studied, practiced and traveled around the world in a quest to perfect an advanced method of inner search and development, with a real capacity to give us self-realization in our daily life. Their system unifies, in a revolutionary manner, ancient oriental wisdom with a profound comprehension of our social problems, offering practical techniques and theoretical concepts that have one purpose: to create the ideal individual conditions for the real evolution of humans, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually. Walter Ferrero and Andrea Di Terlizzi are the founders of the Institute for the Harmonious Evolution of Mankind (www.ieau.it), a school of inner knowledge with radical characteristics, where they teach a system– considered by many to be at the cutting edge of human development – for the attainment of true and complete inner knowledge and freedom from the limits and fears of the personality. Their teachings are focused mainly on gaining an independence and inner freedom that can be achieved in our life through a process of liberating our spiritual potential, widening our mental horizons and the opening of our emotions. Walter Ferrero and Andrea Di Terlizzi hold regular conferences and seminars throughout Europe and are authors of numerous books in Italian, they are now pleased to introduce this book, the first of a series in English.