Our deepest secret, our most hated (read "feared") idea about ourselves is our gateway to freedom.
Which is also true of our little no-account secrets. We may have something that occurred last week or last month, and we can see no good reason to share it. Unfortunately, our feelings often can't discern between deep and dark and little no-accounts...both can give us the feeling of a hidden-since-birth secret.
Interestingly, there are many ways around our secret...as in lie and deny...but those are temporary fixes with ugly hooks on them. There is only one permanent way through it. And through with it. That is to accept it just as it is, and acceptance, according to me, is an impossibility to our unaided self alone. So, in other words, seek inside help...ask God what he has in mind here.
Personally, I remind God, and often, that he's the one in charge, he's got the job, he's got the power. If he wants to delegate, do it already, but he's going to have to give me a clue. It is amazing...miraculous is not stretching it...how often I give over, and he answers in the next thing I read. Sometimes it's Rohr or Easwaran, sometimes it's Carolyn Hax, sometimes it's an e-mail from a friend. But there it is. my answer...pure and simple, to quote my beloved Chet.
Free the fear, free ourselves. And here we are...feeling as free as a butterfly.
Thank you.
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