It is my belief that there are two ways upon which to walk in life...the material road and the spiritual path.
We are born into the material world, thus it is that road that will always sing to our ego-based reasoning mind.
The spiritual path is ours by our choosing and also by grace and by God. It is a lesson usually late in learning that we all must turn to the spiritual path at some point in our many lives. We usually come to it late...and by grace and by God...when we lose all hope. Through utter desperation in other words.
Those who live and walk the reasoning-mind road and excel there, i.e., are smart enough, adjust to their life as it is, get a good job, have a happy marriage and well-adjusted children, live in a good neighborhood, have a satisfying religious life, know the "normal" amount of ups-and-downs...they have a much harder time of even seeking the spiritual life within them, i.e., the fourth dimension. Excelling in the third dimension is hard to hate, who's kidding whom? (The tripwire is that our unacknowledged, and without God unsatisfiable, conscience lives there.)
Those who come to the spiritual path usually begin life seeking what the reasoning-mind world appears to offer. When we think about it, it truly is the picture of perfection. That's why enlightenment is not reachable by thinking.
The pearl-beyond-price is crash-and-burn...which is almost always necessary for detachment from our reliance on our reasoning-mind. It is also that which we resist right up to death's door because however we cut it, "crash-and-burn" is not ever going to be inviting to the reasoning mind.
That's not all, when we manufacture a crash-and-burn scenario, that doesn't work either. That's just the reasoning mind running on empty from working overtime. OBTW, a manufactured scenario is calling an unacceptable situation acceptable because we've heard that acceptance is the answer no matter the question. We can call it acceptable till our face falls off, but until we honestly accept...a.k.a., hold our nose and take a leap of faith...we will be the sole source of our own misery no matter what other name we put on it.
Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven....
Thank you.
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