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There is a small inner voice within each of us--always there, watching us, and silently helping to guide us when we're quiet enough to "hear" it. We always sort of knew or was suspicious that there was something there; like an angel sitting on our shoulder watching and looking out for us. But, having become so attached to the material aspects of our early more formative years of experiencing physical reality, we tend to externalize this feeling or sense as something separate from ourselves. We start looking for this silent overseer or guide in external form. We look for a personal teacher, a guru of sorts that will help guide us through life. In this search for this invisible guide or helper to our life we encounter many religious type beliefs, customs, rituals, and sects.
Some of us pursue different forms of institutional type religions in this search. Others experiment with Buddhism, Hinduism, and other esoteric traditions or activities. We each follow a different individual path and each come to feel that somehow their journey is being guided by some invisible force. Our initial search will take us through one teaching after another in the form of different teachers, situations, or experiences. We must remember that each situation is a teaching in itself helping to move us along our path toward enlightenment.
Ultimately each person finds his or her route through. Some of us may never come to know who our true spiritual guide is. Eventually we come to a point were we realize we all have a guide not in form. We come to realize our guide is within us--is one with us. As we begin to listen, we come to trust this internal voice. We come to "listen" and tune to and trust the silent teacher within us. We notice our internal guide never identifies with any specific worldly religion or spiritual way. It is free to roam the gamut of all of them looking for the truth contained in each, knowing that all ways lead to the same place. It is only our minds that tend to trap us into less pure teachings offered by the external physical world. As we learn better how to hear the spirit within, our perception shifts, and we begin to notice changes in our understanding of relationships; we notice things and people we never noticed before.
In our beginnings we experience the many-sided dualism of physical reality. At the end is spiritual oneness. But, in the middle is the many path journey to understanding. The inner guru is the being within you who always knows--the being whom you meet through deeper intuition when you've gone beyond your mind. This is your true teacher. The creator, the teacher, and the self are one.
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