As we walk

• Just because we have chosen to walk a spiritual path we will not be free from the emotions and feelings that are part of being human.
• We will still get angry, be annoyed with people and get frustrated. All of these emotions are normal.
• What changes, as we move along the spiritual path, is how we process these emotions, what we do with them and how they affect our life.
• They will not have the same effect on us as they once did and we will learn to choose our emotional responses to situations and even, at times, choose not to respond at all. This is when our spiritual and emotional being is in balance.
• The belief that once we step onto the spiritual path we will no longer experience emotions such as anger is false. It is unreasonable to expect that of ourselves, just as it is unreasonable to expect that we will always respond to every situation within the context of our spiritual learning.
• We will still feel anger and even fear, but we will not feel it in the same way.
• The emotions that once had control over us will now be part of an experience that we will assess with calm detachment, just as we would consider on which side of the street we want to walk on.