Our challenge in seeking still more spiritual growth is to accept that there's every chance this very day that we will choose to remain in the pondering posture...a.k.a., stuck in self...all the while calling it "seeking spiritual growth."
We know we have accepted this is not spiritual growth. per se, when we see yet again that self is doing our thinking. When self is doing the thinking, even when we are right, we are wrong for there is no God there. That is simply ego on parade, and self will always legislate for self...ah, but with God knocking on the door. God is within, always at the door, waiting to be released.
There's our mental salvation: stuck in self thinking spiritual growth is our attempting to open the door for God all on our own. I don't believe that can be offensive to God, but it is a waste of our energy and his time.
The most important word in "...choose to remain in the pondering posture" is remain. Since we do live in the world, we use the mental tools we have in order to get above our need to use the mental tools we have. It is not a waste to ponder still more spiritual growth...it is a waste to do nothing but ponder. Question. Answer. Ponder. Question the answer. Answer. Ponder. There it is, the ego's parade.
It is in meditation that we realize that we can get out of our own way...let go and let God.
Thank you.
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