OUR ONE GOAL...STAY THE COURSE

I'm reading this morning instructions for spiritual growth, one being, "Learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation."

According to me, folks today, through psychiatry and the assorted self-help books, are more and more ignoring life's spiritual answer of ego reduction in depth, striving primarily to protect not our pure self but our ego-victory self. I mean, how likely is it that "detachment and joy in renunciation" will immediately sound like a plan to your ego? Mine either.

"The divine qualities lead to freedom; the demonic to bondage," That translates for me to "Ego reduction in depth, i.e., spiritual growth, is freedom; ego is bondage."

Those of us on the spiritual path for any amount of time at all, on reading these instructions, will know them for truth. Many of us already are striving to do them for we have learned that if we're not serving God, we're serving ego.

The good news is what counts is not how well we walk the path, away from ego toward God, but that we are headed in the right direction with but one goal...to stay that course.

Thank you.