I am convinced that it takes deep suffering (or sublime unearned joy) to find our tenderest place. I am convinced, too, that our tenderest place is God's hidey hole which is unattainable by our own self-will. Not that self-will is a bad thing...it's necessary if we want to live a reasonably orderly, fairly comfortable life. But self-will alone will not get us peace of mind...or happiness for very long.
It is through our deep suffering/sublime joy, that some few experience transformation. That transformation is particularly paradoxical in that the desire to avoid suffering is obvious, but the nature of unearned joy is our very ignorance of it. It is paradoxical in that the end result of both is our personal transformation.
It is in that tenderest place within, God's hidey hole, that our resistance and our ignorance are transmuted, and we are transformed. In that transformation we are lifted out of self-consciousness...concern, protection...into other-consciousness. Just as hurt people hurt people, transformed people transform people.
It is in other-consciousness that we are set free...free to be unselfed for the benefit of others.
Thank you.
It is through our deep suffering/sublime joy, that some few experience transformation. That transformation is particularly paradoxical in that the desire to avoid suffering is obvious, but the nature of unearned joy is our very ignorance of it. It is paradoxical in that the end result of both is our personal transformation.
It is in that tenderest place within, God's hidey hole, that our resistance and our ignorance are transmuted, and we are transformed. In that transformation we are lifted out of self-consciousness...concern, protection...into other-consciousness. Just as hurt people hurt people, transformed people transform people.
It is in other-consciousness that we are set free...free to be unselfed for the benefit of others.
Thank you.
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