Time and things change, that is the fact jack.
The mind also has to change with time & the spirit has to do so as well. A leisure suit was great in 1975, but walk into a job interview wearing one now and chances are ( unless you are doing a 70's porn movie re-creation) you will not be hired.
The suit was great then, now??? mmmmmm, not so much.
The same thing applies to understanding oneself and ones sense of spirituality. A spiritual pursuit shouldn't just be a "pursuit" for your whole life and then after years of being faithful to it, you just friggin' drop...Yay enlightenment! Oh shit, wait, I am dead.
The process should have a sense of "arrival" at specific stages in your life which then leads to introspection on completion of each wonderful chapter that has unfolded. A person then can appreciate what they have done and then move to a new level of reality ( kind of like when a snake sheds it's skin) one that has always been right in front of them all along, waiting for them to "spiritually mature".
Far too often though, people just keep on plodding away, day after day, year after year without any goal in mind to what this whole "invisible" spiritual stuff is about. This ( in The Rabid Monk's concepts) is a version of energetic stagnation.
The internal spirit/lifeforce/chi/prana/ki/tao/apple pie...(whatever it is you believe in) desires movement and results, not a stagnation of life itself while you wait to "spiritually advance".
Sure, people have certain spiritual beliefs and I am not telling anyone what to believe in, what I am saying is a personal spiritual journey should manifest changes within a persons consciousness and bring them to new heights and levels of appreciation of all, ones that actually bridge the gap between the spiritual and physical worlds. ( Insert standard horseshit sounding positive statement here : ) -You can't see where you are going unless you truly see where you have been.
This understanding makes a person a part of the changes they seek and actually opens more doors in regards to a persons own personal belief systems.
The Rabid Monk
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