AVOIDANCE IS NOT A SPIRITUAL OBJECTIVE

Human beings come to consciousness by struggle, and most especially struggle with God and sacred texts. We largely remain unconscious if we avoid all conflicts, dilemmas, paradoxes, inconsistencies, or contradictions. – Fr. Richard Rohr, “Daily Meditations”

We remain unconscious by trying to avoid all conflicts, etc., because avoidance is not the spiritual objective. The spiritual objective is to make peace with all conflicts, dilemmas, paradoxes...i.e., to divorce ourselves from our own opinions, to detach from our own resistance and learn to be open to a higher way, a selfless way.

What if all our blinding flashes of the obvious are stopped at one place within us, waiting to be released, to flow from us for our benefit and for others?

We cannot release these blinding flashes of the obvious…release is up to our God consciousness which knows when It is ready. We will be released in that instant…but we must stay focused on still more spiritual growth else all these blinding flashes of the obvious will lay fallow, never to be released.

We can, however, keep them from being released by living in our ego-victory reasoning mind (through our own self-determined objectives and such). In which case, I'm guessing, we will have to keep coming back until we get it right. 

Thank You.