We are called to give over, give up, give in. What we must give up, give away, cede, is our own security...that is, our idea of our security.
Since our journey begins with our knowing little of our spiritual self, our core, the most resistance comes with changing our mind...from our outlook to our insight.
Until we accept that all our answers are within, we are stayed in our reasoning mind. When we accept, we begin our U-bie heading in the right direction, open to seeing exactly what our own idea of our security really is. Comes the dawning...our security is mentally based in our own opinions.
The Sermon tells us to swear to nothing at all...to let what we say be simply "Yes" or "No" for more than that is all ego. And there's our big Ah-Ha! This is the way to agree with your adversary quickly and to give up fighting anything and anybody.
To the reasoning mind, both of those have been "pie in the sky," either unwanted to begin with or impossible to attain. It is finally no surprise when, here it comes again: We must go beyond reason to love.
We remember Eckhart's saying that the spiritual life is all about subtraction, not addition. Blinding flash, it's all about detachment but the detaching is from our own opinion...our mental opinion. Ideally before it ever reaches our mouth.
A man had not yet given up everything for God as long as he held on to the moneybag of his own opinions. -- St Francis
Thank you.
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