First Steps…

The sacred, the divine, the multidimensional, the magical, is around us and within us. As children we often experience this other reality, but the immediacy of physical, psychological and social existence penetrates our vulnerability and we build up defensive—and successful—personas for coping with it. As this happens we lose our openings of communication with the other, inner world. We close down, and create and thicken our defences.

Later, for one reason or another, we begin to recall this inner world and its sacred beauty. We begin to sense that there is some form of underlying and transcendent connection between everything.

Written by William Bloom in an extract from his book First Steps: An Introduction To Spiritual Practice.

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