You Are the Key!

“You suppose that you are the lock on the door. But you are the key that opens it.” ~Rumi

This week’s quote is for those of you who seek the key that opens the door to higher consciousness. What lies behind this door can best be described as infinity or eternity – a blissful realm of pure love and light. The spiritual path is basically the search for the key that unlocks this imaginary door inside your heart. Where exactly is this magical key? And how can you get your hands on it as soon as possible?

Perhaps, as Rumi’s quote suggests, you’ve got it all backwards. You are not the problem that needs solving, you are the solution. Many people believe that there’s something fundamentally wrong inside. They think of themselves as a complicated puzzle that must be solved first before they can be happy. But you can spend your whole life searching for the key to happiness without ever realizing that you are holding it in your hand. You become like a rope that has been tied into a knot. You think of yourself as the knot when, in reality, you are the rope.  

There is really nothing you can do to force the door to higher consciousness open. No matter how hard you push, you will never get it to budge. Not because the door is locked, but because, as the poet William Holman Hunt once said, "The door of the human heart can only be opened from the inside." In other words, the eternal bliss and infinite light that you seek is who you really are. Instead of pushing on the door to higher consciousness, simply go inside and let yourself in.

Ultimately, you will discover that the door to your heart was never closed to begin with. The barrier between you and eternal bliss you seek is just a figment of your imagination. So, stop fixating on finding the key, because you are the key!  As Mother Theresa taught,“There is no key to happiness; the door is
​always open.”