SURRENDER OF SELF

So I'm sitting chatting about this and that with an acquaintance, and she says, "There's an awful lot of surrender of self that has to happen if we want to receive the spiritual gifts."

There it is.

Most everybody, I'm guessing, wants peace of mind...peace within...peace without...peace. Yet the last thing we think of in order to receive peace is the surrender of self...even a tiny little bit of self surrendered suggests to our ego that we are losers, less than, nothing. Which thinking requires we resist those thoughts...fight in a word. That is our reasoning mind in full gear...at it's sharpest, honing in on the problem...which, to our ego-victory thinking, is not us, is never us.

The truth is, our answer is never out there...nor is it in our self-determined objectives. Our answer is in still more spiritual growth wrapped in spiritual principles.

Our reasoning mind, driven by our ego, requires us to always look outward for the solution. God consciousness invites us to look within, to release the peace that was given us before birth and has always been ours...all we need do is give it.

Thank You.