Ah, here's the life lesson...we must embrace the present moment when (not if) we are gifted with feelings of pain, shame, anger, and/or hurt.
To embrace our resistance is to know transcendence...I'm afraid that sounds like I'm putting on airs. My proof of "knowing transcendence" comes from my recent experience of being chewed a new one, in public!, and, although I was numbed by shock as it was happening, since then, I've known sincere compassion for the chewer. Even better (and so far) I've had no poor, pitiful, put-upon-me feelings. There...that is true transcendence for me.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. —Eckhart Tolle
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. —Eckhart Tolle
Sidebar: The following is from my journal of a few years back. I note it today because our moments of "knowing transcendence" are not something that stay with us. Unless we consciously embrace and remember them, they are lost to us:
Blinding flash of the obvious: Black (evil) overcomes White (good) with one swipe. That is the glory of Good...we must needs live in the Good if we are to overcome just one swipe of Evil.
I wrote the above yesterday and today Rohr wrote the following:
Dan O'Grady, a psychologist and Living School student, told me recently that our negative and critical thoughts are like Velcro, they stick and hold; whereas our positive and joyful thoughts are like Teflon, they slide away. We have to deliberately choose to hold onto positive thoughts before they 'imprint.'
Thank you.
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