Fleet Maull argues that modern attention has drifted away from the inner spirit. Spiritual traditions exist to help you recognize your original nature and see the divinity in others, which reflects back what you need to see in yourself.
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We've invested so much of our thought vibration in only what we can see with our two eyes. And what we hear with our two ears. And what we say with our lips. Our whole world has become so human. We have completely disregarded the spirit within, the soul within. And so the whole practice of any tradition is actually to help us to come back home to ourselves. Because we're so distracted from that. We're so removed from the original nature of our existence, we don't even know it. We look at another human being, and we find everything that's wrong with them. And we completely miss the fact that it could be my own imperfections I'm seeing in the other person. But Vedic or spiritual traditions remind you that when you look at another person, see the gift in them, the divinity in them, the God in them. And you'll also see a reflection of yourself.