BOOKENDS...OR OUR STARTER LIBRARY

To be truly secure, we must begin to find a source of security within ourselves. - Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" January 29

"To be truly secure...." There it is...the inner need, no doubt, of every single soul on this earth, to be truly secure. 

I thought of changing "be" to "feel" but, learning to live in the Now, to feel is to be...Now. Face it, five minutes from Now, someone with a gun (a.k.a., our attack mind) may break in and whoa! There goes our security...which is specifically and positively why we will never be or feel truly secure unless and until we tame (change) our very own mind. 

We fairly quickly learn we are incapable of doing that all on our own...we need that "source of security within," to find that "source of security within," and who's kidding whom? It is God, by any holy name we choose to use, that we need to get us over our own self.

Through trial and retrial, we discover that the source of security within ourself has naught to do with self-confidence or self-knowledge. In fact, if reliance on self is involved, we're heading down that wrong road again...still. 

The source is within ourself...in many different places, we will read that it is sealed up within ourself, explaining why  the reasoning mind is defeated at the outset...the seal cannot be broken by thinking, pondering or analyzing. 

Bingo! The seal is already open, has never been closed to those who have eyes to see...and a want-to. To those of us married to our own intellect, that's a stretch. Ah, and there's our beginning.

Trusting intellect alone, we can ponder Einstein's words (from Fr Richard Rohr today): "Albert Einstein once talked about the illusion that is created by [the] belief in separation. He described it as a prison that restricts our awareness of connection to the whole: 'A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.'"

There...Easwaran and Einstein, our starter library.

Thank you.