GIVE OVER AND BECOME WHOLE

We often forget that the actions we are contemplating contain the seed of its result.. - June 17, Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By"

What we see is always our self. - Lazy Man's Guide (?)

Our toes get stepped on, seemingly without provocation, invariably we find we've made decisions based on self that later placed us in a position to be hurt. - Anonymous

Those three quotes (and many more meaning the same thing) are the key to peace of mind...to learning how to give up, give over, give in and feel whole about it. We know we are whole when we can do our giving and love and laugh about how hard it still is.

We go through all the inside muck and mire and come out the other side believing we have cleaned our wreckage up and out. The jarring discovery is that cleaning up our wreckage does not mean we'll never need go through it again...we are, after all, still our own self. 

The spiritual gift is that the next time(s) we will go through at a deeper level with less blame and shame, more understanding and acceptance...of our self and the (always) other in the picture.

Ego is with us 24/7 and can only be made peace with, never risen above. But then the same goes for God. Isn't it interesting how the same fact can get a feeling of Oh, No and YES! both at the same time? I like to think that's the oneing of dual thinking..

Thank you.