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| Luciano Balduino |
Often goodliness is overlooked when in a confused and complicated modern life the applicant is deterred from the straightforward. We can find ourselves at these internal crossroads moment by moment, whereas the simplest measure to ascertain by is of goodness and kindness and nought else.
In the spiritual worlds these inclinations and actions are the only currency to empower and move us forward, to be enabled to navigate further shores.
Goodness and kindness.
For what is it to be spiritually adept - an acrobat of thought, a scholar of the supreme - if we are to stray far from our own goodness and our own kindness to self and to others.
And it can be spoken of in terms of virtue, of higher principle, and principalities, and we may talk in the abstract about these two qualities and can consider them here - but let it be said at the outset that even that consideration would take away from their properties one knows, and can easily identify, if honestly reviewing oneself. There really needs to be no explanation for what these two things truly are.
However for the purposes of study we can look a little closer and all the while remembering that we are already well qualified to know and enact goodness and kindness throughout the day in our own personal hemisphere of life.
Morality was a concept introduced in intellectual circles during a period where society needed to question its overall activities, and in part this was a genuine assertion of the collective conscience, however it was also the beginning of isolation within the individuality; of deferring to a ledger - whereupon the notion of one’s behaviour might become sterilised amongst the homogenous collective agreement rather than with the internal knowing of right from wrong - and the sense, the true sense, and happiness for that matter, that goodness and kindness can bring.
For if one defers to a group (whether it be religious or societal) for these measures, they have already departed from themselves by doing so, and left behind the exquisite precision of their navigating intuition.
In other words if one needs to ask, they do not know - or do they?
Wilful ignorance, inner blindness, denies the self the practical means to move forward. And it is here that the review of the day can be most useful with these things in mind. What could I have done, what should I have done? By this measure, What did I not see? Who did I not see before me? And there it is.
The shades of wilful blindness are upon us in this discussion for so very quickly we may conceal our own faults and flaws, our shortcomings, and hush the inner dialogue to the question of how are we to be brave enough, stern enough and strong enough to push back energetically, thoughtfully, and contrast all that is mundane with the joyful fervour that is Christly, practical, and helpful and be quick to respond to a circumstance where our powers can help - truly help - and heal with open arms and open heart.
Each spirit genuinely loves this world - it is our natural way to give, to care, to be charitable - and there can be no higher instinct or pedigree than this.
