The Human Condition

"The spiritual journey," writes Thomas Keating, "is not a career or a success story.  It is a series of humiliations of the false self that becomes more and more profound.  These make room inside us for the Holy Spirit to come in and heal.  What prevents us from being available to God is gradually evacuated.  We keep getting closer and closer to our center.  Every now and then God lifts a corner of the veil and enters into our awareness through various channels, as if to say "Here I am.  Where are you?  Come and join me.'"