According to Fr Richard Rohr, "We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by
doing it right. That might just be the central message of how spiritual growth
happens, yet nothing in us wants to believe it."
The really sobering reality is that we all must meet our own personal crucifixion if we are ever to detach from our ego-victory mind...which houses our pathetic belief that we must protect self.
Fear of "doing it wrong" is entirely ego based, and can only put us on that circuitous road to still more ego building. Our own idea of exactly what "doing it right" is becomes our god...there is no God there.
I'm guessing it all comes down...yet again...to trusting our Father within: Live in the Now. Hold your nose and take a leap of faith. Fall flat on your face. Get up. Bitch (we are, after all, human). And...yet again...trust our Father within. Live in the Now, etc., etc., etc.
That may just be this world's road to Calvary. Because with each fall flat on our face, if we do get up, we do move forward...toward God consciousness, away from self consciousness. It is in our decision to get up, that we accept our own personal crucifixion (also known as, I can't, He can, Let Him).
The doors are then open for God to flow out from within...to live our lives.
Thank You.
The really sobering reality is that we all must meet our own personal crucifixion if we are ever to detach from our ego-victory mind...which houses our pathetic belief that we must protect self.
Fear of "doing it wrong" is entirely ego based, and can only put us on that circuitous road to still more ego building. Our own idea of exactly what "doing it right" is becomes our god...there is no God there.
I'm guessing it all comes down...yet again...to trusting our Father within: Live in the Now. Hold your nose and take a leap of faith. Fall flat on your face. Get up. Bitch (we are, after all, human). And...yet again...trust our Father within. Live in the Now, etc., etc., etc.
That may just be this world's road to Calvary. Because with each fall flat on our face, if we do get up, we do move forward...toward God consciousness, away from self consciousness. It is in our decision to get up, that we accept our own personal crucifixion (also known as, I can't, He can, Let Him).
The doors are then open for God to flow out from within...to live our lives.
Thank You.
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