Why do we continue to fear failure...to fear even making a mistake? Probably because making a mistake proves we are not in control...it is clearly a loss of control.
Yet, all spiritual growth is about ceding control...giving over...giving up...in despair usually, but in despair or not, it doesn't matter.
I'm guessing it is near impossible for the ego-centered reasoning mind to consciously give up control to an unseeable, untouchable...in short, unknown...force, and not feel despair...or at least pea-green purple petrified.
Underneath it all, that is acceptance, and the nature of acceptance, stripped to the bone, is surrender. Surrender is the realization that the reasoning mind cannot help us here...or ever really get us there. ("There," the place we need to be...need being of God, want being of self.)
Underneath it all, that is acceptance, and the nature of acceptance, stripped to the bone, is surrender. Surrender is the realization that the reasoning mind cannot help us here...or ever really get us there. ("There," the place we need to be...need being of God, want being of self.)
Holding our nose and taking a leap of faith is consciously going for the path of unknowing...the way of all still more spiritual growth.
Thank You.
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