State and stages in the spiritual life
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- It's been helpful for me to think about people experiencing states and stages.
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If a state is when you have a temporary almost like a vacation to a better place, then you actually could start to develop practices that would help you move there
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It's been helpful
for me to think about
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people experiencing states and stages.
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A state is a temporary experience.
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Often people talk about
an experience of enlightenment.
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And what's interesting when
people describe these experiences,
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they're very similar
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even if they happen in different
religions or different contexts.
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But it's the sense that you've
lived at a certain level
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and suddenly you broke through,
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maybe broke through up
or maybe you broke through down,
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but you reach some new level
and the world looks different.
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And there's often a feeling
of euphoria and peace
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and you break into this
and then almost always it fades.
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I've come to understand that
those those experiences are gifts
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that in the Middle Ages,
the monastics called them
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the visitations of God
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or the favors of God, that
they're these great experiences.
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But here's what I think we learn.
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If a state is when
you have a temporary
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almost like a vacation
to a better place,
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then you actually could
start to develop practices
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that would help you move there,
so that you could live there
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and that would become
your normal state.
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Well then you'd be ready
for something else.
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And this is how the spiritual
life has been for me.
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I can think of several
critical spiritual experiences
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where I had as a temporary
experience of a state
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that then I had to learn
how to grow into.