I often think that the hardest thing life will ever ask of us is that we simply change our mind. The thought occurred to me this morning that, in fact, the hardest thing we are asked to do is to change our thinking,
To change our thinking puts us in a more fluid state...nonresistant, actually. Letting my mind flow, that is the place where surrender, acceptance and gratitude live. A state of grace. An egoless place. God's hidey hole.
Back here on Planet Me, that's a real fine idea, it's just best I don't let my ego Lucy attach to it or I'm living hair shirts and fake humility from here on out.
I've found that attaching to such fine ideas is the essence of scrupulosity, i.e, taking an idea to the outside of enough. That's where a seed dropped by God becomes a self-determined objective, and there is no God there.
Be wary of the overly scrupulous. -- From "The Cloud of Unknowing" by an unknown 14th century monk.
Thank you.
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