Are we there yet?

How will I know when I have an awakened spirit? What's it like?


St Thomas of Acquinas said "About God, we cannot say." We can talk a lot about what isn't God; but we cannot talk with any confidence about God - whatever God may be. The Cloud of Unknowing has the thesis that we can never know God so we have to work with our unknowing where God is not "not God."


In the same way the world of the Spirit is beyond us. God, truth, love and spirit are there all around us. And yet they remain beyond us. The world of the spirit exists then in everything we do. And it seems that if we attend to the present, we can get in touch with it.


The original question is better answered when we realise that we already have an awakened spirit but we're just not aware of it. Maybe we get glimpses, fleeting but enormously effective. So, to be gnomic, we know when we know.


Dealing with the subject in this way reminds me a lot of the saying - those who know do not say and those who say do not know. Which makes not knowing - or unknowing - a good place to be.


In love and light ...