The mental contortions of everyday life between ego and spirituality, according to me:
Your resistance is a magnet to my ego...which resists your resistance. Thus starts an ego fight: Egos on parade, hoofing it down our own Broadway with our own banners flying, each knowing what the other "needs" to do to get over self.
It may be that our entire problem when going for spiritual growth is that our ego wraps up in spiritual miasma and rides herd, calling it spiritual growth. We name our problems "you" and instruct our ego to pray, preach, litigate for you...which is just "Satan quoting scripture."
The test is whether we are able to realize the peace that true concern for another brings. After 24 hours, if we're still begging the Palace Guards at the door of our ego to "bless her, change me," and cursing God for not listening, we'd best own up that we're stuck in our own self. We simply don't want to change.
Maybe life is simply a test of how to live a life of gratitude...and every niggling bit of resistance is simply a call for gratitude. Since gratitude is always outward bound, it is the quickest way there is to get out of self...or quite possibly the only way?
Thank You.
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