The ego-based reasoning mind is ever with us. Our job is to transcend it, not "just stop using it"...which is not possible to the overwhelming majority of those of us living in this world.
It is the daily practice of surrendering unto acceptance of the ego-biters, the so-called "little" things, that will head us in the right direction. We'll know we got there (i.e., free of our ego-biter of the moment) when we laughing tell another about how we used to get crazy when she did thus and when he did so.
In that moment we are blessed with the grace of gratitude that we transcended our resistance...a.k.a., got over ourselves. For it was never the "thus" that she did, the "so" that he said, it was our reaction to it...our resistance to it.
We have been taught that nature abhors a vacuum...take away resistance and most of us will have a huge hole in our soul. Then is when we feel our most vulnerable...alone, scared and clueless. Now is when we shoot a "thank you," and it is never more appropriate for we are at the place we need to be...surrender. It is then that we are open for grace to flow forth and fill us with gratitude.
We are reminded of Lincoln's "People are as happy as they want to be." Take away our own resistance, and...aha! Live, love, laugh and be happy. Those are all just words unless and until we choose to do just exactly that. In short, we give up fighting anything and anybody.
Thank you.
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