The force that brings about life itself is spirit. That covers everything. We are nature. What makes the plant grow and you and I grow is the same force. There is only one. We call that spirit. In our head, our brain we split things, spirit and not and we get into all sorts of trouble. The ideal is to be in alignment, unity with the flow that spirit is. Whereas most of us have one foot on the break and the other pressing go.

The definition of the word spirit in my book, I used two lines from the poet Dillon Thomas.  They’re very famous lines.  He speaks of the forest through the green fuse drives the flower, drives my green age, one of the greatest beautiful lines that “through the green fuse drives the flower, drives my green age.”  It’s only one.  What makes that plant grow and what makes me grow.  It’s the same thing.  The force that brings about life itself is spirit.  So that covers everything.  There’s nothing left out of it.

The statement in the gospel that you worship, not on a mountaintop, not in a cathedral or a temple, you worship in spirit and in truth.  Now what does the word spirit mean?  It means you worship the spirit by throwing your life into the life process, by giving over totally to that force that through the green fuse drives the flower.  You give yourself over to it in order that it does what, that it drives you fully and completely without obstacles, without your blocking it.

Sot Prem, that marvelous statement that he made; that if you’re thirsty the river comes to you.  If you’re not thirsty there is no river - you see.  How do you know when the river when comes to you?  It simply flows through you. And at that point you and the river are one.  It’s just a single process.  But in our head, with our kind of brain, we can split it off and consider them two separate things and then we’re in effect positing one against the other and we get into all sorts of trouble.  But to give yourself over to it is simply not to block it, not to have conflicts within you.  Most of us have one hand that’s gesturing toward spirit with a halo around it, the other hand just doing our usual old thing. But to worship in spirit is to risk your life to life itself.  We don’t risk ourselves to life.  We hedge by trying to predict and control, defend ourselves, build our bulwark around us or armor ourselves and so on and so forth.  And so, that’s the word spirit where truth is something else.