Notion of Growth

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany

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THE NOTION OF GROWTH
our body while at the same time all mental (spiritual) efforts assume a disproportionately high significance. In this frame of mind all kind of actions (and even the body itself) may be rejected as annoying, troublesome, obstructive and interfering with spiritual development.
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The sutra makes clear that activity is an inalienable factor in our development. Only when we transfer our insights into action will the unfolding of our consciousness become possible. Any exclusively mental (spiritual) occupation with esoteric contents - irrespective of how intensely and seriously we go about it - neglects one of the three essential factors of growth and therefore is unable to produce the optimal and stable unfoldment of our consciousness.
Activity is an essential part of our life in the state of embodiment. Through activity we strive for fulfillment (realization) of the values and ideals we feel deep within ourselves. The emotional engagement with which we pursue these values acts like a magnet that attracts all components necessary for their fulfillment.
This emotional engagement allows us to experience the themes of our life until we gained optimal insight from them and our emotional attachment to the finished themes falls off.
Yet our emotional bond to unfinished themes of life continues to remain active even if we reject their transfer into activity. Without manifesting them in activity our life will continue to revolve around these unfinished themes - whether we like it or not.
When we seriously begin to direct our activities towards inner growth, we rapidly become able to arrange our actions so intelligently that unwanted themes of life either fall away or are completed in their shortest pos