I was doing a bit of reading and YouTube watching about spirituality concepts this morning. It struck me just how accustomed to the idea of there being many different explanations for one thing I have become.
I used to be a person who needed one right answer. When I first started to learn about spirituality the fact that there are so many different explanations of even commonly believed things like chakras (I’ve seen explanations for 5, 7, 12, 22, and even no separate chakras just a beam of light) caused me quite a bit of stress and added to my doubt and confusion.
“If this stuff is true, how can there be so many variations?”
But I released those old beliefs that led me to want there to be one right answer for everything.
The way I see it now, humans are gazing at this vastness that we have labelled God, Universe, The Infinite, Source, The One, All That Is, or any number of other names. We are trying to describe a small sliver of that which is beyond our ability to fully comprehend.
I love hearing about a completely different belief system or perspectives now. It reminds me that this is an infinite Universe. And it reminds me not to get so locked in to my current understanding that I don’t allow myself to expand.
An analogy for “there’s no one right answer” way of thinking popped into my head a a little while ago.
If I was in an auditorium with 200 people in it, and I gave everyone a pencil and paper and asked them to draw a leaf, no two people would have an identical drawing. I would have no trouble with this. I would not try to choose the “right” leaf and therefore declare all other leaves “wrong”.
I would understand that each person has drawn one instance of the infinite forms that a leaf can take. They are all leaves, but one drawing cannot possibly encompass everything that a leaf is.
Just like one religion or belief system cannot possibly encompass everything that All That Is is.