Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
Aren't those words comforting? Um, comforting until we get specific with our experiences. Even my ego Lucy blushes in memory at a few of my own experiences.
Admittedly, I came late to learning all the experiences of my life originated with me...no matter whose name I had chosen for the blame. My personal motto for too long was: Having someone to blame is perfect peace. Laughing all the while but ever so serious deep down.
The comfort that comes with seeking spiritual answers is the release that comes from no longer seeking ego-victory answers. It is in that very release that we make our U-bie, away from self-determined objectives toward the perfect objective which is of God.
We realize we are on the right track, heading in the right direction, when we can laugh at our puny blame-and-shame games...and then tell others. There...the beginnings of a certain sense of humility is sharing our shame without shame, or at least without justifying. That is righteous.
Ah, but we cannot get there on our own well-paved road of analyzing, prettifying, scapegoating, or, interestingly the worst, by piling excess dirt on our own self. We only get to atone for the dirt we played in...dirt into mud is Lucy horning in on God.
We die to our own will and enter the present moment by consenting to whatever it is, either by accepting it or doing something that the Spirit suggests to improve the situation. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," November 28, 1918
Thank you.
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