Changing our mind simply requires us to accept that the Other is being just as we are perceiving that One to be...if it is a person, we usually are perceiving disrespect. So that One is as disrespectful as we choose to interpret it...if we do not pick it up mentally, it cannot do our thinking for us.
All this takes is discipline. The discipline of changing our mind...from interpreting ill-will to perceiving peace. That discipline is based on our understanding that this entire situation may very well be a part of our initiation process...life itself is an initiation process according to me.
Our only job, then, is to accept that the always answer is for us to seek a deeper, fuller realization that God lives within us, without us...as our protection, our shield, our bounty, our blood. Every hiccup is an opportunity to recall and reaffirm that unto realization.
Then, when the still, small voice speaks, we know. We know
that all our sixes and sevens are God’s gift to us. Nothing else would turn us to
Him with such an open mind. That’s why it’s called the gift of desperation.
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