The elimination of self is the key to holiness and happiness, and can only be accomplished with My help. -- "God Calling," March 4
We learn...slowly, slowly...that our job is not to figure out how God is going to fix our problem du jour, but that we must seek within to find how he has already fixed it. Then comes the blinding flash...there is no problem to fix! There is just ever and forever the elimination of self...which can only be accomplished with My help.
First lesson in our search for still more spiritual growth is to keep it simple. Which need we never outgrow. As a start, we clean up our thoughts of self, as in, hug 'em and kiss 'em and let 'em go.
Our nemesis is the "other," be it person, alive or dead, or just another fantasy. Our egoic mind turns us away from our need (God) and focuses on our want (self), i.e., how to protect, pay back, get over on, win...all synonyms for resistance, the bane of a spiritually based life.
We would do well to remember the old saying that you have to lose to win. It's possible that only those who have truly won through losing believe that. The sad ones are those who have lost and, fixed on justifying, have clung to their loss like a liferaft. Rues, regrets and remorses are the liferaft of the loser, and we have for sure taken our turn at floating in that boat.
It is by self-forgetting that we get safely ashore...self-forgetting in the form of our thank you prayer.
And there it is, our acknowledgement of My help.
Thank you.
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