What you don't transform, you will transmit. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditations," September 29, 2013.
Interestingly, personal transformation is always of self, either our ego self or our consciousness of the Self within (known as a "raised consciousness"). In neither case is it possible to do it on our unaided strength...alone.
A down and dirty take on the whole process is: Upgrade your attitude, upgrade your problem. This is where we learn the lie in the saying that the only thing we can change is ourselves...which, in fact, may be the only personal thing we can't change. We can only be willing participants with God in letting ourselves be changed...in letting our minds be changed.
Our ego is our spiritual roadblock...we can never, and we will ever try to, make an end-run around our ego. That's why the Sermon is so daunting...it flat states that we need to do things our ego flat refuses to believe are good for us. As in, if someone slaps you upside your head, turn the other cheek. If someone steals your coat, run after him and give him your cloak. Forgive seventy times seven. Resist not evil. Crazy talk!
The secret is...again...that we cannot do those things on our unaided strength alone, but we cannot not do those things when we realize a power greater than ourselves as our core, as our strength, as our very being.
That's transformation...from self to Self. A transformed Self transmits love...only love.
Thank you.
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