BEWARE OF THE OVERLY SCRUPULOUS

Beware of the overly scrupulous.... -- from "The Cloud of Unknowing" by an anonymous 14th century monk.

Scrupulosity. So few of us pay any mind to scrupulosity...mainly, I'm guessing, because it goes counter to the reasoning mind's dictates that black is black, white is white, and grey is boring. End of discussion.

I'm convinced that being "overly scrupulous" is the bar that we must cross to be freed of our either/or mindset, that place where the reasoning mind rules. It is called "the dual mind," and it rules through its absolute reliance on being provably right. There is no God there. Quite simply, we will never get out of duality until we are freed of our fear of being wrong, according to me.

That road to freedom is our reliance on the unseeable fact of God in our life...the unseeable fact that God does have our back...the unseeable fact that God's hand is in it, it being every wrong or right appearing, everything, every minute. There can be no rues, regrets, remorses when we know from our toenails up that God has already corrected and perfected whatever our reasoning mind is regretting.

I know from experience that it takes a lot of "whistling in the dark" to get to that complete reliance. Experience that is still aborning, she says, whistling while she works.

And that's where  scrupulosity can trip us up... we know, we hope (with fingers crossed).

Thank you.