As a child, you learned to talk. You learned to walk. These were quite natural. No one had to teach you. There was no formal study. You wanted to talk. You wanted to walk. No one had to tell you to move your lips and tongue in a certain way to form sounds. You did not have to consult a dictionary. No one had to tell you that when you walk, you have to want to and then you have to move one leg from the hip and then the other. You didn't need such instruction. Instruction might well have hampered you.
Later you were taught the alphabet and the multiplication tables. They were a different type of learning, though, with desire, you could have taught these to yourself as well. Ultimately, you are the one who learns in any case. No matter what teacher taught you to read, it was you yourself who made the decision to read and discovered how to read. It was you who caught on.
Now, before you walked, you crawled. No one thought that was outlandish. No one thought you had to skip crawling. No one said that crawling was immature, and that you must just stand up and walk. Furthermore, it has been discovered in the world that the act of crawling creates connections in the brain that make learning to read easy. If you were not allowed to follow your natural inclination to read, learning to read might have been harder for you. You are your own best teacher, and you are your own best learner.
No one has to teach you how to be creative. It is helpful when creativity is encouraged and when you are allowed the freedom to blossom creatively, even if it is playing in mud.
There are different kinds of blossoming. There is the intellectual, the emotional, the physical and many combinations thereof. There is also the spiritual. It is learning. It is growing and developing. It is finding out. The discovery of spirituality and your own spirituality — this is awareness that you come to yourself. You can listen and observe. You can read books. You can go to classes. You can follow the leader. Yet you are the precursor of your own spirituality. You are the teacher and the learner of it. You are the one who rushes to it or dawdles along.
It is natural to come to the realization of your own spirituality. It is a natural progression, and it is inevitable. The ability to talk was always there, and yet you picked up speech. It is inevitable that you will pick up spirituality. You will come to notice its development within you.
You are born spiritual, beloveds. Loving God and your own unboundedness is natural to every Human Being, just as speech is. Somehow the world made spiritual growth a separate subject, and you were taught to study the spiritual or you were taught to avoid it. Spiritual growth was often made into some kind of objective learning assignment. You know, in a sense, spiritual growth was made into a school curriculum.
Beloveds, there is no school that teaches a child how to grow physically. There is no school that teaches a child when to have his first or second teeth to appear. There is no school that tells you how to desire to eat and then how to do it. Of course, you can study these matters and analyze them and call them digestion and assimilation, and yet digestion and assimilation take care of themselves.
At this very moment, you are growing spiritually at your own pace. It is inevitable that you will blossom into full enlightenment. You don't have to work hard at it. It is natural. Beloveds, you won't be able to stop it.