Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing. -- Ashvaghosha
Learning to think aright is almost a lost art. "Think," "thinking" have a bad rep because we have never learned the difference between thinking and worrying.
We must think a resentment through if we are to avoid living in that resentment. The trouble is the "through" gets lost...we don't think the resentment through, we think the resentment into a worry. And, of course, the resentment has a face...a resentment doesn't have legs of its own. It is his face, it is her fault which we are resenting. We personalize the resentment.
We get the fault fixed in our mind, then we think about it...only we really worry. Worry, worry, worry...always legislating for our own idea that she is wrong and we are right. And if he would just listen to us, he would understand why, how we are right and s/he is wrong.
The way to think a resentment through is to not personalize it...which means we immediately go to God. Not with the resentment...God knows naught about resentments. We go to God in thanks that we can and do have love to give to the other, for the other's benefit, in praise of the other...for the other, in this very situation that the reasoning mind is resisting through resentment, is our angel. This person, this situation, this resentment is in our life right this very minute for our own still more spiritual growth.
We will only get that still more spiritual growth when we quit resisting the other, a near-impossibility for the natural self. So we make conscious contact with God knowing he performs that which is given us to do. [For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me....Job.23.14]
We thank God again for guiding us through...there's our "through," properly completed.
Thank you.
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