IN BEING, GIVE

....we think we have to climb up to God by Herculean efforts and will power to show ourselves as superior, separate, pure, and saved. That's the ego's need to feel significant and 'worthy.' But we are already worthy, and it doesn't have anything to do with our efforts. A sincere 'yes' to our inherent dignity is all that's needed every day. Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," March 10, 2105

That's the "freedom from action" that the Gita speaks of. To attain Self-knowledge is to attain "the supreme perfection of freedom from action."

Freedom from action means that our race-race, run-run mind no longer is. For that's all that racing mind is about...what to do, what to DO. Freed from action, we rest in God consciousness. Free to do as the lily of the valley does...Be.

In Being, the lily of the valley gives...gives forth the look of beauty, the scent of beauty, the essence of beauty. It lives to give its life to adorn a table, a lapel, a bridal bouquet...for a minute, for an hour...for its lifetime. That is its all...the lily of the valley lives to give.

According to me, this is proof that in God's world, length of time is inconsequential, immaterial...all that matters is in the time we have, we give.

Thank you.