This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. -- 1 Corinthians 2:13
Learning to love (to accept with joy?) that which our reasoning mind rejects is my personal idea of the path to enlightenment. As in, it is an Oh, rats! reality that the way to freedom from fear of financial insecurity is to be in financial insecurity. And there's a reasoning mind reject.
The hard lesson a-learning is that to be the cause of our own financial insecurity for the purposes of reaching enlightenment is insanity...or self-will run riot, whichever. There is no God there, for sure. Of course, financial insecurity is any self-determined objective that we choose to use...or misuse actually.
I have long believed that our ego is the essence of good intentions run amok. Face it, our ego wants the best for self, but it allows nothing but self to decide what the best is. God, who?
Just this morning I read a great line in Rohr's Daily Meditation: One of the conditions of enlightenment has always been a willingness to let go of what we thought we knew in order to appreciate truths we had never dreamed of. (Karen Armstrong, The Case for God)
That speaks to me of the inadequacy of our intellect to open to the transcendent divine mind. It is fear of our inadequacy, I'm convinced, that keeps us tied to our reasoning mind. Or simply our not daring to believe that there is a mystical, transcendental Presence within us (as taught by Joel Goldsmith).
Reminds me of the great old gospel-hymn, Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven...Nobody Wants To Die...everybody wants enlightenment, nobody wants to risk face for it.
And God loves us anyway...just so.
Thank you.
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