life is a dance

Life is a dance

Between the mundane and the divine

Between the material and the spiritual

This is the whole art of life, the dance. It's easy enough to stay in the mundane world and forget about the divine. We can entertain ourselves with material things till the end of time. But then we have missed the dance. Others, if they are lucky enough to get in touch with the divine, step over into that world, and forget about the material completely. But that too is to miss the dance.

The art is in bringing these two together, the earth and the heavens. And where does this happen? It is not on the outside. We don't look outwards to find the divine, and we don't look outwards to stay in touch with the material. All of this is within us, within each of us. And it is here that the great dance plays itself out, a dance between the mundane human side of life, and the mysterious spiritual side.

This delightful dance is played out inside each of us, and it is an unchoreographed dance. We might try learning some steps. We might have some rules that we try to live our life by. We might have a spiritual discipline that we practice over and over again. But ultimately we need to let go of those dance moves that we have learned from others. We need to find our own dance, how our own humanness likes to play with the divine that is within ourself. It is this unique, unpredictable dance that is life.