It's Time for a Spiritual Revolution

I'm tired of waiting; New Year's Day 2014 is as good a time as any.

The changes we see in the world today are intellectual, moral, physical in their ideal and intention; the spiritual revolution waits for its hour and throws up meanwhile its waves here and there.
  -- Sri Aurobindo

So here are some ideas to get the party started:
1) Meditate/pray/read/commune regularly: spiritual practice is just that -- a practice.
2) Learn from all sources: Buddha, Lao Tzu, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, etc. Thinking that you can get all the spiritual wisdom you need from one prophet or tradition is like thinking all the science we need was invented by Sir Isaac Newton, or that Julia Childs was the only person who ever wrote "real" cookbooks. There are spiritual truths all over the place.
3) Learn from recent sources, too: Auro is right, there have been multiple waves -- the Theosophists, Pentecostals, New Thought, Science of Mind, Manley P. Hall, Gurdjieff, Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Ken Wilber -- some of the most important spiritual ideas for our time have been revealed in our time.
4) Let's get together: and not like a Coke commercial. Let's arrange meetings between these different groups, see what we have in common, figure out why we disagree about some things.

Until it comes the sense of the others [i.e. the intellectual, moral, physical changes] cannot be understood and till then all interpretations of present happenings and forecast of man's future are vain things. For its [the Spiritual Revolution's] nature, power, event are that which will determine the next cycle of our humanity. --- Sri Aurobindo [with some help from me. I find the good Sri a bit pedantic at times. And his grammar is a bit weird.]

Auro wrote this some time in the 1930s. 80 YEARS AGO. I know the Divine has more time and patience than we do, but  WE NEED THE REVOLUTION ASAP. Our brothers and sisters who are gripped by fear, anxiety and despair (and those who are too mired in greed, pride, or prejudice to realize that the should be in despair) need to know that there is a way out, a way to live that is full of love and light, a peace that passeth understanding, a joy that is in and of and connected to all things and all eternity.

It is the lesson of life that in this world everything fails a man -- only the Divine does not fail him. 
-- Sri Aurobindo

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Hawk in the Wind

I'm watching a big hawk circling above the windy little valley where I live. It's been about 10 minutes since he's even had to flap his wings, but he keeps getting higher and higher, gliding gracefully on the warm updraft. He's so high now that he appears motionless. A person centered in the Spirit is a lot like this hawk in the wind. Do you think he's worrying about dangers tomorrow may bring, or regretting opportunities he missed? Is he thinking about some object that would look really impressive in his nest? Is he thinking about how impressed the other birds will be? Or worried they'll think he's lazy?

The Divine can lift us up if we learn how to let it.