Venerable or vulnerable?

The veneration of the form is one aspect of spirituality that is as pejorative as it is wasteful. The more that we are exposed to our inner nature, the more we become able to discern and to evaluate the various aspects of our conditioning, our experience and our potential. Along the way there is one caveat (concerning the transformation of energy into the form) and that is to realize that the form is a support and a vehicle for the energy that comprises it. It is not the energy nor does it have any substance without the energy.

Once we free ourselves from this conceptualization of our experience, we become much more able to take advantage of the various ethereal currents that run through our psyches because they are not encumbered by the formulaic nor the formulary. Relying on the form to provide us with the support and the sustenance for our well-being is a call to the memorial reserves of the soul and this is not the source of our energy, it is a repository of all forms that have ceased to serve a useful purpose but whose memory is maintained until such time as they can be discarded.

Like those old shoes in the upstairs closet, you will never wear them again so why keep them? Sentiment? Nostalgia? Reminiscence? That they served you well was sufficient reward. Keeping them around just takes up valuable space that could be used for making room for the next pair. Our creativity is only limited by our ability to realize our potential. What was can only serve again if it is transformed. Recycling means forgiving the past effects and forgetting the previous use. Knowing that what you did once cannot be re-created because situations are never static (except within the memory where they reside, emprisoned in a involutionary dead-end) frees you to realize that a creative being not only creates, he seeks to create as that is his purpose.