KNOW IT AND SHOW IT

It's no wonder the splinter I see in your eye is naught next to the plank in my eye for the splinter I see in your eye is one defect. The plank in my eye is me. It is my ego which is without boundaries, formless, towering...giving it cause to believe it is God.

And that, that plank in our eye, is the only thing that ever needs to change...the only mindset that must change if we are ever to know permanent spiritual peace...to give and to get.

We cannot remove that plank through more reading, more pondering, more analyzing, more intellectualizing...although those are our first tools. All necessary, all useful. Which is why it is so hard to loose them and let them go. They worked! And they are ours. It's hard to accept that they no longer work.

Plus what we find ourselves being offered in replacement is a promise, just a promise. And it doesn't come from someone we trust...it comes from within!

We hear this little voice telling us we already have that which we seek...we not only have the love we seek, we are the love we seek. So we grab another book, think some more...put some space between us and that little voice. We are torn between our reasoning mind telling us that we are not stupid, that just cannot be right, and our spiritual world aborning whispering of love. Which we oh so desperately want to believe.

There's our stuck place. Wanting to believe and daring not to. Wanting to believe that all we seek we already have and daring not to believe for how do we prove it?

Then that little voice gives us the quiet word: We prove it by using it...by giving it away; all that we seek, give. We want love, love. We need a kind word, give a kind word. And here's where our proof grows its legs and walks: We need patience, be patient...to the one who is bugging us unnecessarily and incessantly. 

There's that splinter, that splinter that is our blessing for nothing gets our attention faster than the splinter in the other one's eye. We realize that we just need to change our mind. To refocus in a word...in order to recognize your splinter for our plank. The plank that is our ego once again and always, our ego.

There it is. All that is needed to prove we already have all that we seek is to change our mind...then live it.

Thank you.