I believe we are born into the material world, and our journey, our life's walkabout, is to return to that time and place before conception, i.e., to God. We live in the third dimension until something either horrific or beatific shoots us into the fourth dimension, the egoless place within. We would never get to the fourth dimension without that shooting star whatever ours may be.
It takes great faith and no small amount of courage to risk opening our self to the fourth dimension. Interestingly, it matters not what causes us to take that risk...great suffering seldom begins as great suffering. Too often it begins as a pointless pimple...or a resentment. Someone demands (!), and uh-oh! There it is. Ego rarely reflects, it reacts, and my ego Lucy doubles down every time. The demand could be the equivalent of a pile of butterfly poop, Lucy pushes back with a snowplow.
The snowplow, of course, is our reasoning mind. We think about it, and it is our ego doing our thinking. Legislating for our self. Pondering the injustice of the demand.
The lesson is to not beat our self for our reaction but to remember gratitude...to say "thank you" and that is all. With our thank you, we've just passed that dimdam football off to God. He's got it, leave it with him. Then, if we cannot agree to the demand, simply say, "No, thank you," and keep on moving.
The hook is: We don't get to the fourth dimension that way. We get to the fourth dimension by agreeing to the demand without a thought...without judgment in our head or heart, without a pat on the back for our self. We are lifted into the fourth dimension when our reasoning mind gives up, gives in, and gives over to a higher power to do with us as It will.
Apparently, and according to me, the fourth dimension only comes when we are utterly detached from our reasoning mind. Another paradox: My great fear has ever been of losing my mind and winding up in an insane asylum, and here's me advocating detaching from our reasoning mind.
Don't tell me God doesn't have a great sense of humor...love and laugh, love and laugh.
Thank you.
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