Spiritual practice

How shall I change my life, as I journey.....along this new spiritual path?

First....honor a sabbath, once a week. The day matters not. honor an existing sabbath or pick one of your own. This is your time with God, your higher self, seeking Christ consciousness, whatever one wants to call it. 

Spend most of your waking hours doing those things....practices that bring you into awareness of union with the Divine, whatever you call it.

Some time, people find it beneficial to fast from sundown on the previous evening until sundown on the sabbath. One would need to be medically healthy enough to do this safely. Spiritual practices should never injure you.

This is your time alone with the Divine, so to speak. It is a time for rest and renewal of the body, mind and spirit, though the spirit may find itself a blaze at times. This is the spirits day.

Another day should be set aside for making contact with fellow travelers, family, etc; a social sabbath, this to realize that our spiritual growth depends on how we interact with others. We are learning that our relationship with the Divine is reflected in our relationships with others. Some may want to think of this day as a feast day, as Christians are suppose to celebrate Sunday....a day of celebration, recreation and the like. This is a day of joy....the return of the prodigal child, for example. 

On the spiritual sabbath, the first sabbath, anything goes. Anything that truly feeds the spirit good food. It may be DVDs or tapes of workshops or lectures by your favorite Gurus, so to speak, that you choose to get into. It may be meditation or contemplative prayer and reading scriptures from various traditions or it may be some combination of things. The main thing is, cut your self off from the world as much as possible. It is the world that keeps pulling you away from your path. But when one is taking the path of being in the world but not of it, time away is needed. 

As Jesus of Nazareth said, God made the sabbath for man, not man for the sabbath. In other words, any practice which involves being in the world but not of it, requires a sabbath of some type for our own good and well-being in this world

From the oracle

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