GOD IS LOVE

To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God. -- Abu Sa'id

There it is, whether we be Sufi, Christian, atheist, whatever, there's the entire instruction book for how to be a free person...cease from being occupied with self.

Occupied with self is pretty much just being married to our own opinions. Facts can stand alone, it is opinions that our ego fights for, and an ego fight is a losing fight. Especially when ego wins.

The leaven in still more spiritual growth is that grain of willingness to detach...or to just agree. We learn sooner or later the first telltale sign of attachment as when s/he says whatever and we think no...already our ego is answering the call to "stand up for our self."

Aren't most disagreements started in our reasoning mind with an either/or premise? It's only in the spiritual realm that we even consider that a good thing is for both sides to be right. The reasoning mind fueled by ego and, who's kidding whom?, common sense, balks at the idea. That's why it's in the spiritual realm, and we must needs go to God for it to have even a wee, small chance.

Here's the hard lesson a-learnin'...we go to God for God and that is all. Not for willingness, not to give over to the other, not to be more loving...those are all self-determined objectives, and if we're  seeking to live a spiritual life, we're doing those things already...or we're trying to. 

We go to God for God and that is all opens the door to God's hidey hole in our Soul. Then, however the end result looks to our reasoning mind...roses or ragweed...we know peace in our heart, body, bones and brain. Knowing it, we release it...and it returns a hundred fold. That is love.

And we are reminded: God is love...especially when It doesn't look like it.

Thank you.