I have come to believe, or suspect at any rate, that letting go of our reliance on our reasoning mind, or common sense, is the major (only?) barrier to our relying on our own spiritual intuition. Necessarily so to begin with. It takes time, dedication, time, discipline and time to hone our intuition enough to trust it...and then we learn to check our self out with our mentor before we fly with it.
That occurred to me this morning when I read Rohr and he referred to Lady Julian of Norwich's
Before God, our wounds are our glory.
I thought upon reading that how it explains God's view as the mirror-opposite of our own. According to me, ego always legislates for self; God does not legislate. It is All...One...Love.
To our ego, our wounds are not fair, not our fault, and must be defended, i.e., somebody else must pay. Spiritually, our wounds are evidence of our search for God and acceptance washes them clean.
I have heard Jung quoted as saying that alcoholism is nothing more nor less than a search for the spiritual. The reasoning mind finds that a tish difficult to grasp, but the Lady's quote tells it, Before God, our wounds are our glory.
Thank you.
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