barrier

Thoughts are the barrier obstructing the embodied spiritual experience. Inherent in every thought is separation and from there comes fear, desire, personal agendas, conditioned ideas about self, others and the world (which are mostly made up of false or skewed beliefs gathered from extremely limited experiences and sources).

Day after day this constant intermingling of mostly irrelevent noise in the space of awareness is pulling attention and activating emotions. Where among this caucophony can there be room for something else to enter, something beyond this vast net of tangled concepts and sensations? The mind/body/awareness is totally preoccupied with memories, projections, ideas and the feelings they generate.

The content of the thoughts doesn't seem to matter so much aside from the fact that some thoughts/words/ideas tend to reduce mental and emotional activation while others increase them. It's basically a form of self-hypnosis. Regardless, when the mind is filled with thoughts/words/ideas it is preoccupied with the conceptual and in a state of separation, judgement and reactivity.

This is why there can be a stark contrast between thinking and speaking spirituality from actually embodying or expressing something of it. Someone embodying/expressing something of this quality isn't just rattling out words that are crossing the mind. In the moment when their Godliness is evident, they're in contact with something deeper than thoughts.