Eknath Easwaran writes that in the spiritual lore of India it is said that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: "Give." I'm betting our ego is born seconds later whispering just two words: "Thus get."
Therein lies the path Home...following our ego's whispers to get until we crash and burn which rockets us into the fourth dimension, the Lord's world of give...resist not, surrender, cease fighting. This is our U-turn...our very crash and burn is grace turning us from me, getting, to thee, giving.
And we will stumble and fall...if we're doing it right. We will get distracted by the siren call of our ego...which must come in the guise of prayer: "Father, better my finances, health, family. Change this/that, him/her...bless me."
We stumble, we fall, we get up and remember, oh, yeah...it's "Bless them, change me." We laugh, and to quote Gov. Perry of Texas, say "Oops" and turn again, away from ego toward God.
The spiritual journey could be seen as a constant purification of motive until we can finally say, 'I have no other reason to do anything except love of God and love of neighbor.' - Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditations," March 29, 2014
Thank you.
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