We change from inside—from the power position to the position of vulnerability and solidarity, which gradually changes everything. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," date unknown
I am convinced this is the key...the key that opens us to the divine spark within.
From the eyebrows up, we want this change from the power position to the position of vulnerability, but our self-perceived need, owned by ego, refuses to let go, knows not how to let go. Our want births the perceived need...but our want is in our egoic mind. Our actual or spiritual need is of God which only God can fulfill.
It is the change from the inside, without reliance on our thought processes that must needs change us. We cannot seek to do it for there is the block, believing that through thinking we are in control. It is the belief that we're in control that the divine spark burns away.
Comes the awakening: The battle is not with our control issues, it is with our belief issues. We recall the decision we made long ago to turn our will and our life over to the care of God, and our belief that we are or need be in control is lifted.
It is written that we are released from self through great suffering or through great love. Many let go through surrender, through crash and burn...great suffering.
Great love: We have to make contact with this divine spark by emptying ourselves or letting go. And then we will know the unity that already exists. -- Meister Eckhart
Thank you.
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