DEBATING ONLY DELAYS ARRIVAL

So I'm talking with a friend who was a construction worker until he was like 40 years old. He is now a professor at a well-known university and pretty happy about it...as who wouldn't be?

He is now seeking more, and the more he is seeking is spiritual growth. And resisting every spiritual concept he is given, or is led to, or arrives at on his own. To him, spiritual concepts do not make reasoning mind sense...which is indeed true and is the whole point!

My friend does not yet know that he is delighting in shooting down every concept through logic. His bottom line being, why would one change one's mind when one is provably right?

Which I am (delighting in) resisting obsessively.

My ah-ha! My fretting about convincing John that he needs to get out of his reasoning mind world is ME still in my reasoning mind world.

I can't convince spiritual consciousness onto or into anyone. I have a hard enough time staying put...or, actually, bringing myself back there when I get up in my own head.

All I need to remember is...all paths lead to God, we'll get where we need to get to when we get there. Debating only delays arrival.

If we are growing spiritually, we are depending less on our reasoning mind and more on our intuition, and that really cannot be black-and-white proven, according to me.

Thank you.