41 THE PYRAMID OF KNOWLEDGE
It could be said that the time a person has to truly know the universe that surrounds him is determined by various aspects in a magnitude from higher to lower and that could be represented as if it were a pyramid, in this pyramid they are first found in their Based on the purely material aspects that force us to dedicate time to work or to look for food for the mere subsistence of our body, secondly is the need to have children that is necessary to be able to preserve the species. Then there is the free time that we can dedicate to sleep or to classic entertainments such as traveling, playing or reading, or also the pleasures that the physical senses offer us, and finally, at the top, is the smallest part of the pyramid which represents the time we can dedicate to discovering who we are and why we exist, that upper part may be the smallest but not for that reason it is less important, because all the previous material parts only have the mission of serving the upper part, that is, to the part of our human consciousness, because only when we become aware of who we are do we discover our place in the universe, only when we are aware that within us there is a spirit endowed with eternal life do we become aware that we can really participate in the design and construction of the cosmos.
Inside our body is actually the spirit that is the depository of our eternal soul, in the spiritual dimension it is not necessary to eat or sleep because the spirit is not subject to death like the body and therefore does not have the need to search for food or have children. That means that in this dimension what matters are the ultimate values that are the true cause of existence. This is the reason why we should not be content with summarizing life to the material aspects and we must seek through meditation that higher and spiritual consciousness by which everything exists. Life in matter is also necessary, because the spirit needs to reincarnate in it in order to be complete and happy, but that is not a reason to ignore the spirit that we carry within and the values it represents. Nor should we forget that the time we spend working or caring for children can provide us with very rewarding entertainment if we organize it properly. Unfortunately, the human being values better what he does not have than what he has, but the truth is that all those things that occupy us during the day actually also help us to be entertained and feel encouraged that is why they are necessary. It must be borne in mind that life is also based on that, because it is the emotion of continuous change that entertains and stimulates us, but we must not allow exclusively material aspects to occupy all of our time, because the mission of material tasks It is to serve as a support to the spiritual aspects, therefore, we must save some of our time to observe the world and try to understand how it really is.