Trials and tribulations compel us to surrender human peace and material good for spiritual awareness. It is only through the severest problems that the highest rising in Spirit takes place. -- Joel Goldsmith, "The Heart of Mysticism," at p. 852.
I'm guessing it's the human condition that makes the truth of that quote good news only after we've made it to the other side of our severest problems. Going through hell is going through hell...don't tell me painted ponies and sugar cones await on the other side.
But they do. And they do in a form beyond our reasoning.
Anyone over 50 has gone through their own personal hell...and more than once if they've been doing it right. So has anyone under 50, they only get full understanding after 50. According to me.
Back to my point: "The highest rising in Spirit" is beyond our reasoning mind because our reasoning mind cannot conjure up peace...love...acceptance...joy. These are all gifts hidden deep within our Soul that only emerge with the aid of a higher power.
The paradox is that we've all experienced many times each and every one of those in our lives...right before we've fallen into despair over, say, a flat tire.
Our "severest problems," however, unfixable by the human mind, are the source for our pearl of great price, i.e., the peace that passes understanding. It is those very problems that "compel us to surrender human peace and material good" so we may receive our forever peace and love and acceptance and joy...God in a word.
Thank you.
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