Many of us want to get out of the pain of self and believe the way there is by overindulging...eating, smoking, drinking, doping, video games, etc., et al. We then try our very hardest to stop that. Quit it already!
Well, if we could have, we would have...a long time ago. I'm convinced our problem is not that we can't stop (which is a problem), it is that we refuse to accept that it is impossible for us to get out of self by our self, by our own thinking, feeling, doing, being. Never happen...not with a pound of Godiva or a fifth of Grey Goose or a carton of Camels or a toke or a tantrum.
We're missing the gut-bucket base problem...the problem IS self. If we ever expect to get out of self for even a minute or two, we must needs go to a higher power, a power not of our self, not of our thinking, not even or our complete understanding.
It has been said, and I do believe, if we think we completely understand God, we're going in the wrong direction. Understanding God may be akin to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's remark about hard-core pornography: "It's hard to define, but I know it when I see it." God is impossible to define, but we know It when we feel It...our heart, our Soul, our very bones know and flow with that knowing.
And once we know, we can never forget...it's trying to remember that trips us up.
Thank you.
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