He who seeks to return to his Original state must inevitably face the shadow that dwells within himself, otherwise spirituality itself simply becomes a source of comfort and compensation.
Normally, one seeks psychological compensation in order to “get by” and prolong indefinitely one’s own ego. Most people seek outside what is inside; many want to be freed from pain, continuing to promote the causes that produce those pains; in short, most people demand to be loved and comforted, recognized and enlightened.
Human personality is by its intrinsic nature lacking in love and eager for comfort, for being accepted, desired, satisfied precisely because it “is not”, and not being absolute Reality, it can never be happy and fulfilled no matter how much it can obtain or how much one can give it. And so it goes from one desire to another, from one instance to another, from one event to another, without finding a moment of relief or respite; everything expands in a time that never dies.
Included in this whole mutable and ephemeral world, spirituality itself, the “looking inside” becomes a form of compensation and not an act of growth and inner vision.
