The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: we should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in our path. -- Sri Krishna (Bhagavad Gita) [from Eknath Easwaran's Words to Live By, October 2]
I am becoming unruled, and it does not feel pleasant. Ah, there it is...the unmoored feeling is my assurance that I am on the right track, going in the right direction.
Perhaps the most universal way to name the two spiritual traditions of knowing and not-knowing is light and darkness. The formal theological terms are kataphatic or “affirmative” way—employing words, concepts, and images—and apophatic or “negative” way—moving beyond words and ideas into silence and beyond-rational knowing. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, October 2, 2018
Here's my permission to accept that this, then, is my time of undoing...of rebirth...of becoming who I was at birth, perfect in God's eyes, not so much in mine own. Which would make my current unease being me fitting myself into my original birthday suit.
It's not so much the fit that causes dis-ease, it is letting go of my own ideas about the right...or wrong...of it.
Thank you.
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