Using a specific terminology of Saint John of the Cross, after a ‘dark night’ for her soul, the eleven years old Lily remained searching inside her mind with no explicit direction or knowledge but with the purpose to find answers, something valuable in it.
The girl was trying to know more about her spirit, a term that she heard in the church and at school. Lily thought that the word spirit should be related to the word soul, a term that the girl already knew at the time of discovering the reality of the spirit. Thus, looking with some direction then, she turned to herself one more time questioning, searching inside her mind and her spirit, …what will the spirit, soul, mind stand for? At that time, it was impossible to solve that dilemma.
The purpose to identify, connect and find meaning for all these realities was an immense task that only after years of hunt, Lily clarified and set up some stability that usually comes with the appropriate explanations. Only as a young adult she understood what it means ‘to be unified’, a word but specially a practice that spiritual masters frequently recommend and teach their pupils.
As an apprentice, the purpose to identify, connect or integrate her being, and achieve harmony for her life was something that Lily did intuitively at the beginning. As was said, intellection of those terms and events that marked her life came years later. Those spiritual stages Lily accomplished with no enough coomprehension but with a determination that, thank God, Lily never lost.
