GO TO GOD FOR GOD...A WAY OF LIFE

Some kind of falling, what I call “necessary suffering,” is programmed into [life's] full journey…It is not that suffering or failure might happen, or that it will only happen to you if you are bad (which is what religious people often think), or that it will happen to the unfortunate, or to a few in other places, or that you can somehow by cleverness or righteousness avoid it. No, it will happen, and to you! – Fr. Richard Rohr, Daily Meditations, October 9, 2013

A friend e-mailed me "Ten Guides to Good Human Relations," and, in short, the Guides are: Be sweet, kind, considerate, lovable and generous to all at all times. 

This, to me, is a perfect example of reasoning-mind thinking. The Guides are good, true and necessary, but if we stay/live in this consciousness, and succeed to any extent at all, we will become parodies of righteousness...self-righteous in a hyphenated word. For humans cannot sustain consistently this way of life by our good intentions (self-will) alone, and any minor success bars our ever thinking to go deeper to a higher consciousness. We just try harder to do what we keep proving we cannot do.

It is in failing to maintain that we get to the "necessary suffering" that sends us to God...repeatedly. It is going to God for God...repeatedly...that transmutes the "guides" into a way of life. 

Thank You.

[BFO:  It may be that the reasoning mind says be sweet, kind, considerate, lovable and generous to others at all times so others will like us. And fourth dimension thinking says be sweet, kind, considerate, lovable and generous to others at all times because we love others.]