“There is in all things … a hidden wholeness.”
Thomas Merton, the Trappist Monk and Mystic who wrote these words, was speaking of the human world as well as the world of nature. But in our everyday lives, Merton’s words can sound like wishful thinking. Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished, or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities and become separated from our own souls. We end up leading divided lives, far removed from our birthright of wholeness.
There is no escaping the human condition. We are mirrors for each other and are always reflecting both our perfect divine nature and our imperfect human nature.
We will not reach perfection but we can return to wholeness by integrating our perfect divine nature and our imperfect human nature. This is what the process of evolution is all about. We all have an innate wisdom that knows we are meant to live from love, peace, joy and wholeness.
We have given our power away by accepting lives of surviving rather than thriving. God can only work through us as we become open to that guidance. If we can let go of our survivor mentality which focuses on lack and open in faith to a connection to an eternal energy source that is always guiding us towards not only our own highest good but the highest good of all, we will begin to thrive and live an abundant life.
When we resist this higher guidance we create unnecessary suffering for ourselves. That suffering only ceases when we surrender to a higher guidance that speaks through our innate wisdom allowing that truth to flow through us.
Give your attention and focus to the essence within, knowing you are already whole. Simply relax and allow yourself to open to the higher good that is always available to you. Know that the sun has always been shining even on the cloudiest days.
The purpose of bringing wholeness to conscious awareness is so you can be authentically awake in your own life. The outcome is a joyful and fulfilled life based on thriving not merely surviving.
Irma Francis © 2014
Spiritual Clarity 
Very nice analysis of life and divinity. Please also consider the true nature of the soul, namely, Existence, Consciousness and Bliss. The further projection/illusion created by the Soul can be the names and forms of all the living and non-living existence resulting in the illusion of Universe
May I use this page in my book? I will of course reference where it came from.
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Hi Mark,
What is your book about?
Irma Francis