Here's an I-wish-it-weren't-so quote: "The grace of God sometimes comes in the form of sorrow."
Making it mine thought: "We need to make wise choices every moment just to keep from being swept away." The brain-buster is realizing the speaker was referring to foods. In fact, we must make wise choices especially as to whether to take anything personally or not. Not is the wise answer, but the doing, the choosing, is where the spiritual work begins...just begins.
Then there's: "[Like the fragrance from a flower] love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service." Spontaneous service. Every time I go back and reread that entire quote, I'm struck by those two words. For they are the perfect description of getting out of our own way, letting go and letting God. Spontaneous means without forethought...or it does to me, and I'm not looking it up in the dictionary. Love as "spontaneous service" has no "me" attached...it's purely God flowing from his container, me, you, each and all of us. It begins when we connect with our core, God, infinity on the head of a pin, our center, love.
Thank you.
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