Blinding flash of the obvious: Living in the reasoning mind world is to set and keep boundaries; living in the spiritual world is to loose all boundaries and let them go.
In the material world we learn that ultimately we are responsible for the care and feeding of our self. It takes time, but in finally accepting that, we realize that we must set and keep boundaries, that in the end that is the path to self-respect. "If you don't respect yourself, no one else will respect you," we are taught...which, no doubt, is true.
But there will come a day, if we're doing it right, when for whatever reason, in whatever manner or means, we are blessed with the need and the desire for a power greater than our self, i.e., God, to do our thinking for us.
We begin to learn that with God there are no boundaries. We must lose the reasoning mind's belief that we must get...anything. That we must hold on to...anything.
Spiritual growth is all about becoming transparent...as in, resist not. Whatever comes, looking like death or destruction or merely a snark (which will occupy way more of our mind's time than death, etc.), we learn to detach from our own opinion of it. Detach is our new word-world.
There are no boundaries with transparency...no fear, hate or malice held. Each and all pass on through and dissipate for there are no boundaries to hold them.
It all began for me when I made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God...and meant it. (Meaning it took me awhile.) (Is taking me awhile...I just remembered That Hospital.)
Thank you.
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