Old Samuel could say in a handful of words what I've been trying to get to for days, weeks and months now. Even more incisive is the old joke asking how to get to Carnegie Hall with its punchline...practice, practice, practice.
The hook to a faith that works is still more spiritual growth is counterintuitive...the reasoning mind will not get us there, not even if we sit and think till our face falls off. It is, however, the vehicle we have been given for the hand-off to attain spiritual growth. Not by my might nor by my power nor by my will can my good come to me...but by my constant consciousness of the Father within me/without me.
That's where the diligent practice of subtraction, detachment...unknowing...enters. It's akin to practicing nothingness. Until we make our breakthrough. Then we know and we know we know...only we can't put it into words without sounding sophomoric.
Learning to practice unknowing is what leads us up to another way of thinking...the art of accepting a changed mind. For instance, as our first step we learn that to love is to not get above our raisin'...we are not saints, and we're not going to be anytime soon, and we cannot not judge another just by knowing we oughtn't. Hey...BFO: It is acceptable to judge negatively that which we see and resist in another...as long as we are living what we see is always our self as our guide.
There. Bring it all back home...no better way to get a true look at that which we need to recognize within us in order to come to acceptance of self and others. Which is also known as love.
According to me, that's the how-to in learning to love your enemy as yourself. Who in their right, i.e., reasoning, mind would ever be able to pull that off without bald-face lying? Again, according to me.
Thank you.
The hook to a faith that works is still more spiritual growth is counterintuitive...the reasoning mind will not get us there, not even if we sit and think till our face falls off. It is, however, the vehicle we have been given for the hand-off to attain spiritual growth. Not by my might nor by my power nor by my will can my good come to me...but by my constant consciousness of the Father within me/without me.
That's where the diligent practice of subtraction, detachment...unknowing...enters. It's akin to practicing nothingness. Until we make our breakthrough. Then we know and we know we know...only we can't put it into words without sounding sophomoric.
There. Bring it all back home...no better way to get a true look at that which we need to recognize within us in order to come to acceptance of self and others. Which is also known as love.
According to me, that's the how-to in learning to love your enemy as yourself. Who in their right, i.e., reasoning, mind would ever be able to pull that off without bald-face lying? Again, according to me.
Thank you.
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