The Three Aspects of Spiritual Poverty

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. To be poor in spirit means to want nothing, to know nothing, to have nothing. When you want nothing, you are what you want and you want what you are – there is no distance between what you are and what you want. You stand still in your own being, and the taste of your being is pure happiness. The second aspect of spiritual poverty is knowing nothing – being so lacking in knowledge that you neither know nor recognise that God lives in you. The third and most radical poverty is having nothing – being so free that you neither are nor have a place for God to work. There is no separate self; God works in himself by himself. In this poverty, you enter into that eternal essence that you once were, now eternally are, and shall evermore remain.