Understanding Is the Key

Over the years, I’ve learned something simple that has changed everything for me as a spiritual student:

understanding my own life is far more powerful than trying to figure out anyone else’s.

The moment I stopped analyzing, fixing, or diagnosing the world, and began listening for what life itself was teaching me, things began to move. Peace, clarity, and even practical outcomes started to shift — not because I tried harder, but because I saw more clearly.

Emmet Fox put it this way:

“A correct understanding of the Law of Being is the secret of all that is worthwhile in life.”

Recently I came to a new understanding about my own personality, especially how fear had quietly been shaping the way I lived. I saw how often I was bracing against life instead of allowing myself to enjoy it. We are very good at turning life into a problem. But what did life ever do to us? Life is not the enemy. Our real work is to let ourselves enjoy being alive.

I was reminded of this in a conversation between friends and a spiritual teacher. Someone asked him if he had a wife. At first he said yes. Then he paused and corrected himself.

“The Universe brought me a wife,” he said. “And the Universe brought me children.”

That small shift says everything.

It moves us out of expectation and into appreciation.

Out of control and into trust.

Out of striving and into receiving.

When we live this way, abundance is no longer something we chase. It is something we notice. Life becomes less about making things happen and more about allowing what is meant for us to arrive.

That is the freedom that understanding brings.

Rev. Tracey Harrick Centers For Spiritual Living