Troubles often jolt our progress. But it's preferable to progress through spiritual understanding from the start rather than through the goading of worries. The spiritual truths we come to grasp stay with us through our life and forever. Though struggling out of the quicksand of trials may strengthen our characters and toughen us in other good ways, it may leave us believing somewhat in the quicksand as reality. Progress through spiritual understanding— through consciously being alone with reality —certainly never does this.
Being alone with reality, we're not lonely. Seeking aloneness with reality doesn't mean slinking away from responsibilities and hiding in a dark corner. Being alone with the truth of things, we know we're coexistent with, and include, God's permanent, spiritual ideas. We're away from the cluttering complexities of material so-called reality.
It's the creation of Spirit that is real. Matter, Spirit's reverse, is not real. Nor are material space and time. Believing that matter, space, time, are realities, we run around in the same box as our problems and never actually resolve them. To be alone with our true being and with the reality of all things is not to leave the concrete and actual. It's to know and feel Truth's omnipresence—to know and prove we've jettisoned lies and lacks of material sense.
