Balance

The conscious mind, as spiritual leaders describe it, is wonderful, but limited and often fear based.  The mind can design computers, judge right and wrong, perform job functions, tell us to brush our teeth, perform scientific studies, provide us with an endless source of entertain-ment, remember the alphabet and tell us to keep our hand off of a hot stove. In short it can tell us how to get along in the physical world.  The conscious mind is also often fear based, so it is important for me to balance it with the absolute, which is love based.  If I balance them, I can be aware that the fears are often totally illusory and due to very transient attachments.
The absolute is also wonderful, it can show us that things like growth, compassion and love have eternal/universal significance and that many other things are important only in that they teach us about things like compassion, love and understanding. Otherwise, as many people have pointed out, things in the created order have little meaning. Existence in the absolute is a meaningful way to spend an eternity with occasional periods of being in physical form. Mystics and many healers get to experience the absolute directly.