Walking with Inigo

We are going to undertake a trip to our inner selves, in the company of the butterfly and St Ignatius of Loyola. For those uninitiated in the Spiritual Exercises, one of the greatest spiritual classics of all time, is the compendium of spiritual exercises to free oneself from all the chains that bind one to this world, and experience the sheer bliss, what is known in Sanskrit as ananda, and through the joy God himself, the sacchidananda.

However it is not easy to free oneself from all that one is tied to in this world; the world will not let one flee from her embrace all too easily. It requires a lot of will power to free from her enticing embrace. Therefore the first step in taking this journey is to recognise where one is, and what one seeks. Discernment and election are the two words that we would come back to again and again. To discern what God wants of me, is not all that easy. But fear not, for Inigo will show us how we can find what He wants of me.

But why the butterfly? What is her role in accompanying us in this journey. She will be a constant companion in this arduous, lonesome journey. She would play the role of the Chorus in the ancient Greek plays, interrupting our movements, and throwing more light on where we are and what we do, so that we are aware of what we do and are fully conscious of it.