Spiritual Forum

Soren Kierkegaard, a Danish thinker, said once: You can only understand life backwards, but we must live it forwards. Nice insight indeed.

In Aerosmith` Amazing there is the line: Life's a journey not a destination.

And somebody told me these words: Life is not a puzzle to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

When I studied church history at the university I experienced two professors which were most different. One was teaching all the numbers, persons and events having taken place in exact, detailed and severe manner. The other one was a specialist in wide views, showing big connections and relations.

Kierkegaard is so exactly right - we can only understand life backwards. This appears most often a heavy burden, for waiting to be able to look backwards needs patience.

Patience is the power of letting go, simply letting go for being able to make experiences. And experiences allow us to look backwards, and maybe we understand a little bit. But first comes the courage to live forwardly.

Small views are causing pain a lot, for they do not allow us to look back in order to understand properly. They are simply to small.

It is always a wide range of views allowing us to understand deeper connections and relations.

Small views are the obstacles coming our ways, those failed loves and misunderstood events, meetings and happenings. Small views lead mostly to pain and sufferings.

Wide views reveal possible answers. They make pain disappearing and fill our hearts with insight and often comfort and thankfulness.

And often even wide views are not full answers, but fragmented and fragile signs pointing to something, which has to do with divine connection.

Thus a destination becomes something vivid and challenging - it becomes a journey. Our destination is a journey through life, and the journey is connecting on a wide range of things, meetings, events, happenings.

The essence of a mystery is not simply revelation. A mystery is a mystery, because is is related to mysteries not unfolded. A mystery must remain mysterious. It will only reveal itself bit by bit. That is life, and we can only live it as it is. This is living the mystery.

It needs both, small and wide views and will ever need courage to go on...