TO KNOW LOVE

Upgrade your attitude, you upgrade your problem. That was a blinding flash of the obvious a whole lot of years ago, and I'm still grateful that I'm learning how to.

And every year on this day when I read Eknath Easwaran's Words to Live By, I know again the thrill of This Is How To.

This is how to transform consciousness: "...you have to look for the right spot. In some people it is a particular compulsive craving; in some it is jealousy; in some, blind fury. Some may be fortunate enough to have all three. Each person has to look for that spot where urgent work is most needed." [Emphasis added.]

And the urgent work is not asking God to take it away, not giving in to the feeling that we're never going to get there, not trying every trick we can think of to stop doing it. The urgent work is making ourselves available to God on a daily basis...simply seeking to realize God. Go to God for God...that is all. That defect can and will be either lifted out of us, or, more probably, simply transmuted. Transmuted into something we can use to help others get free of the same defect.

"This is to know love -- and love is life eternal." Joel Goldsmith, The Heart of Mysticism, at p. 474.

Thank You.