I read my Easwaran this morning, and a sentence I'd highlighted but forgotten spoke to me, "To be truly secure, we must begin to find a source of security within ourselves."
At the bottom of the page I noticed a quote I had long ago written, first said by whom I do not know: "It is not what we are called, but what we answer to," said a black man about being called "nigger."
To me, that is profound.
But, underlying, I suspect "what we answer to" refers also to our own thoughts about ourselves...those ugly mental slings and arrows we shoot inward. Those will ever be with us, I am told, so we must needs "find a source of security without ourselves" for when those mental mice start gnawing.
We must exercise the Spirit of God within us often and oftener if we are to experience the Spirit of God in our lives. For it is, I believe, God and God alone which is the source of security within that overcomes our mud-slinging thoughts and allows us to move out of self into service for others.
And there we find peace, love and joy.
Thank you.
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