Recent blinding flash of the obvious as I was drifting into sleep: How we suffer sets the course of our daily life.
Fleshing that out in the light of day has been a toughie. Suffer. There's the entire message in that word. We duck and dodge suffering at all costs...it even sounds painful, feels painful rolling off our tongue. But we're taught that great suffering and/or great love are necessary if we are ever going to be free of our own self...if we are ever going to grow spiritually.
Our understanding of both "suffering" and "love" is what needs to change. We resist suffering, we welcome love, and we have no inner understanding of either. We are still in the mental kiddie pool thinking, "Suffering feels bad, love feels good...shut up already."
The problem being we are trying for spiritual understanding but using our reasoning mind. Spiritual understanding is to see in the opposite direction from our material mind.
Our understanding of both "suffering" and "love" is what needs to change. We resist suffering, we welcome love, and we have no inner understanding of either. We are still in the mental kiddie pool thinking, "Suffering feels bad, love feels good...shut up already."
The problem being we are trying for spiritual understanding but using our reasoning mind. Spiritual understanding is to see in the opposite direction from our material mind.
Suffering is not altogether a bad thing, love does not always feel like a good thing. What if it is that on the spiritual plane they entwine? What if there is not one without the other following?...great suffering begets great love.
Somewhere in the Bible it says something like we must suffer it to be so now in order for us to get to heaven tomorrow.
Heaven...the kingdom of heaven...is opened to us through our surrender of self. Nobody ever surrendered self without suffering, and nobody ever found the kingdom of heaven without realizing love at their center. According to me.
Thank you.
Somewhere in the Bible it says something like we must suffer it to be so now in order for us to get to heaven tomorrow.
Heaven...the kingdom of heaven...is opened to us through our surrender of self. Nobody ever surrendered self without suffering, and nobody ever found the kingdom of heaven without realizing love at their center. According to me.
Thank you.
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