As I was brushing my teeth this
morning, I got a blinding flash of the obvious: “You need to lower your
standards.” Since my standards aren’t extraordinarily high to begin with, I
knew that could not mean what it seemed to say.
I realized that I was being
told to lower my ego-standards. It is in letting go of ego-standards that one
reaches God’s standard…Love.
Deep in the center of one’s being
is that standard which brings perfect peace. It is known by various names…the
Golden Rule, service, loving kindness, are a few. The practice of any one of
those can and will bring one perfect peace, but, I’ve learned, one cannot
practice them in order to get perfect peace…or indeed in order to get
anything.
One practices love in order to
love…ah, perfect peace.
Thank you.
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