Blinding flash of the obvious: The kingdom of heaven is proof that our worst fear/greatest glory signifies nothing.
Faith in our Father...is there anything harder to hold to? Even when we really, really want to hold to it!
Face it, our reasoning mind may not be stupid, but it's not easily changed even when we are aware that we are clinging to our own perceptions, not to reality. To paraphrase Eknath Easwaran: We see not what is really there but what the ego wants us to see, i.e., the profit of momentary gratification.
According to me: The kingdom of heaven is God consciousness; we live in the material world seeking spiritual growth; raising our consciousness is the essence of spiritual growth.
The conundrum, of course, is that we seek for our consciousness to be lifted out of worst fear/greatest glory mindset into the kingdom of heaven, but the reason we seek is to be safe and secure in the world we cling to...which we're attempting to rise above.
I don't doubt the basis of anxiety today is our taking too seriously our perceptions of worst fear...which is probably fear of not getting our idea of our greatest glory.
This life may simply be about deepening our trust in a Higher Power. Or, our acceptance that God truly is within, has already completed beforehand all that we personally need. Our path consists in walking it as he has perfected it for us.
Ah, and we get to keep coming back until we get it right.
Thank you.
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