"Meditation and other spiritual disciplines are largely meant to give us the toughness required to take hold of our lives," Eknath Easwaran in today's Words to Live By.
This is really important to me because it reinforces another instruction that helped turn me from the idea that my will was to be gotten rid of...period. That instruction: "We must try with a will or fall by the wayside."
Again...paradox. I kept hearing (which is not necessarily what I was being told) that we must have a goal to live toward, but we must let go of goals. Over the years, I have been given to understand that a happy life does indeed have a goal to live toward...a spiritual goal. More money, a better job, more head knowledge is not going to get us the peace we seek.
The toughness required to take hold of our lives and trying with a will are all about aligning our will with the will of the God of our own understanding. We take hold of our life by turning our life over to that God...and trying with a will to leave it there. That two-pronged goal is a goal for the rest of our lifetime if we live to be 200 according to me.
Thank you.
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