Every day in every way we are growing with God...because in every instant God and I are one. Self-doubt, self-hate, late-night natterings are all tools for use in the process of shedding the outer garments...like the peeling of the onion...and that is the correct process, according to me.
Ego lives and expresses itself through our reasoning mind, growing stronger through either self-glory or self-hate...makes no never mind to ego. We give over to the ego when we fight that, when we resist it. No.
When we catch ourselves once again beating on us for our ego thoughts (i.e., resisting), we learn to simply welcome those thoughts. Nothing shuts nattering up faster than agreement. Then we can choose to move on to a peaceful thought. [FYI, that works, too, with people who are just using our ears for their raves...that simple "You may be right" is a time and mind saver.]
What we must come to accept unto realization is that it is the missteps and mistakes, done by us or to us and that we dwell on with thoughts of regret or vengeance, that are our fortune. How we think on them is our gold. Those are the nuggets that are paving our path to God.
Begin the exercise, believing or not believing, that this, this which we are regretting so deeply and wishing it were otherwise, is our nugget of gold. Those thoughts, transmuted through love by God alone, not through prayer, worry, rues or remorses, form the foundation of our road to freedom from self.
Ego lives and expresses itself through our reasoning mind, growing stronger through either self-glory or self-hate...makes no never mind to ego. We give over to the ego when we fight that, when we resist it. No.
When we catch ourselves once again beating on us for our ego thoughts (i.e., resisting), we learn to simply welcome those thoughts. Nothing shuts nattering up faster than agreement. Then we can choose to move on to a peaceful thought. [FYI, that works, too, with people who are just using our ears for their raves...that simple "You may be right" is a time and mind saver.]
What we must come to accept unto realization is that it is the missteps and mistakes, done by us or to us and that we dwell on with thoughts of regret or vengeance, that are our fortune. How we think on them is our gold. Those are the nuggets that are paving our path to God.
Begin the exercise, believing or not believing, that this, this which we are regretting so deeply and wishing it were otherwise, is our nugget of gold. Those thoughts, transmuted through love by God alone, not through prayer, worry, rues or remorses, form the foundation of our road to freedom from self.
Thank you.
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