No evil can befall you, if I am with you....You have to see your inner lives are all they should be, and then the work is accomplished. -- "God Calling," January 30
Personally, I believe that 100% of spiritual growth comes from our inner work which work is all about detaching from one's self...from our wants masquerading as our needs.
No doubt there's a gazillion deterrents to spiritual growth, but my three favorites are: One, the thought that money will fix it; another, being acknowledged publicly as right; and third, keeping a count of our so-called followers. None of these require a quieted mind...indeed, they activate our mind with worry on how to get and/or keep each of them.
Our need (rarely, very rarely, our want) is to become willing to enter the narrow gate, and the reasoning mind will never get us there...it can be taught to aid us, but love and love alone is the key. Love defies the reasoning mind, like when it asks that we open our heart and mind to our enemies while not forgetting our friends. Or to agree with our adversary quickly (when reason says for a certain-sure fact that we are right).
This is where a taught-to-aid-us reasoning mind proves its worth...it is that which reminds us: We're going to God for God. Spiritually, being right is wrong. Shut up and agree. God can and will explain later. That's called doing nonresistance.
The human condition, I'm convinced, is that we complicate the next thing...something like, whatever is before us, get an opinion and stick with it. If, however, we sincerely want still more spiritual growth, all we need remember is loose it and let it go.
All spiritual disciplines are done with a view to still the mind. -- Swami Ramdas
Thank you.
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